PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Phoenix man is jailed on multiple charges after police say he repeatedly physically and sexually assaulted a woman, while keeping her locked in a backyard shed for two weeks.
Timothy James Wood, 36, was booked last week on charges including kidnapping and several other felonies.
Shortly after 4 p.m. last Wednesday, July 2, Phoenix police responded to a 911 call from a home in a neighborhood near 19th and Glendale avenues. She told dispatchers that her boyfriend had been assaulting her for days, and she was able to escape the shed she was being held in and run to a neighbor’s home for help.
When officers arrived, she told them she had recently been evicted and was living in a shed behind the home of her boyfriend’s father. She said her boyfriend, Wood, kept her in the shed for at least 14 days, by tying a tow strap around her ankle, chaining the double doors and stacking bricks outside to keep it from opening…