A Vancouver police Major Crimes detective is asking folks who bought magazines from door-to-door salespeople last month to call him as he investigates an alleged sexual assault at knifepoint that occurred last week.
A woman told police that during daylight hours on Oct.25, a man came to the door of her home near East Fourth Plain Boulevard and Stapleton Road and knocked, claiming he was selling magazines.
The man, who was holding a clipboard, pulled a knife, forced his way into her home and sexually assaulted her, according to a bulletin from the Vancouver Police Department.
She described the assailant as a dark-skinned African-American man in his early 30s, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He had a short, Afro hairstyle and was unshaven, with a slight beard and mustache. He wore a red hooded jacket and a thin gold hoop on his right ear. She said he had a thin vertical scar on the left side of his neck.
