A DeKalb man accused of stalking and raping, or trying to rape, five women last fall will remain jailed, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Gary Wendale Mincey, 36, was denied bond as he stood before DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gail Flake.
“If released, this defendant poses a danger to this community, a risk of committing a violent felony, a risk of flight and a risk of intimidating witnesses,” Flake said.
Mincey is charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sodomy and robbery by force, along with multiple counts of rape, aggravated assault, armed robbery.
Prosecutors said that over a two-month period in the fall of 2011, Mincey would identify the women at night as they left different businesses, and attacked them as they arrived home.
And after attempting some level of sexual assault and threatening the women’s lives, he would rob them of money, jewelry, car keys, cell phones or other valuable items, prosecutors alleged.
“It is believed that he followed his victims home from [various] locations,” Assistant DeKalb County District Attorney Nicole Golden told Flake during the bond hearing.
On Oct. 16, Mincey allegedly followed his first victim from the Tanqueray Lounge on Glenwood Road and attacked her at knife-point as she went to retrieve her mail, Golden said.
A second victim he allegedly threatened with a knife, a gun and a Taser in the early morning hours of Oct. 21, after following her home from Echelon 3000 Bistro, which is on South Hairston Road in Stone Mountain, near the McDonald’s where Mincey worked nights.
He attacked a third victim at gunpoint inside her garage on Nov. 22, just before 8 p.m., prosecutors claimed, as she arrived home from the Publix grocery store on Flakes Mill Road.
“There is a DNA match to this defendant,” from this incident, Golden said.
Prosecutors said Mincey assaulted his fourth victim on Nov. 24 around 12:30 a.m. as she returned home from Tanqueray Lounge.
He allegedly tried to rape her at knife and gunpoint inside her car in the driveway of her home, Golden said.
“Her daughter actually observed the attack,” Golden said. “She came out of the home when she heard her mother’s car pull up and [the victim] did not get out of the car. She was shooed back into the house by her mother and by the defendant.”
The final victim was allegedly robbed and raped at gunpoint inside her home on Nov. 29, at around 5 p.m., after returning from the Flakes Mill Publix.
There, prosecutors said he took her laptop, camera, printer, money and jewelry.
“He was found using the victim’s phone,” Golden said. “The very next day he was arrested with the defendant’s phone and property on him.”
In January, Golden said Mincey’s mother found items in his room that were taken from three of the victims, prosecutors said. She called police and the victims were able to identify their belongings.
Golden requested that bond be denied on the grounds that Mincey might attempt to flee to Miami where he’d grown up, and where he was convicted of two burglaries in the mid-1990s.
Public defender Darryl Queen asked Judge Flake to allow Mincey a $50,000 property bond, arguing that his client was grounded in metro Atlanta because his family lived in DeKalb County.
“He lived in Decatur with his mother, sister and fiancé,” Queen said.
Flake quickly denied Queen’s request.
Mincey remains in the DeKalb County jail, where he has been since his arrest in November.
His attorneys have requested an independent analysis of the DNA that was collected from his third victim. His trial will likely begin sometime early next year.
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