Gregory Mars, a 45-year-old Oakland man convicted of rape in 2009, is accused of attacking two women in September. In one incident, a woman said he knocked her down and stabbed her in the shoulder while her 10-year-old son was present. Mars was paroled from New Folsom Prison in Represa in March and is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.
Court records cited by East Bay Times describe two September incidents. In the first, on Sept. 11, a 23-year-old woman said Mars hit her in the face about five times inside his car and shouted, “I’m not letting you out, b—-.” According to filings, she opened the car door and escaped by screaming for help.
The second incident was reported on Sept. 29. A woman testified that she was walking with her 10-year-old son and a friend when Mars called her son a “fat a–.” She said Mars then knocked her down and stabbed her in the shoulder.
Pepper Spray, a Friend’s Intervention, and Regret
The woman’s friend brought out pepper spray during the Sept. 29 confrontation. The woman later said she blamed her friend for not de-escalating the situation and for introducing the spray. The account of her testimony was reported by East Bay Times…