Lex 18
January 23, 2014
The man accused of kidnapping a stranger from a Lexington gas station then sexually assaulting her is still on the run more than a month after that frightening attack.
But the hunt for Parico Coffey continues. He’s considered armed, dangerous and desperate. The last time police saw the 22-year-old was Dec. 17 when he was captured on surveillance video just moments before police say he kidnapped then raped an unsuspecting woman at the Alexandria Drive Speedway.
Police think Coffey and another man, Dexter Watson, worked together, though Watson was picked up on other charges.
Coffey is accused of abducting the woman he didn’t know, then raping her before she escaped with his gun, only wearing socks and banging on doors for help on Bordeaux Drive.
“It makes you really nervous thinking he could be walking around,” said Staci Mackto who lives in the Bordeaux Drive area. “Who knows if he is here or somewhere else. He could do it again and that’s scary.”
Coffey may have been in jail the day of December attack, if a judge hadn’t probated him two years on a theft conviction in February of 2013.
If you have any information on Parico Coffey’s whereabouts, call Lexington Police immediately.