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Woman Says Boyfriend Smoked ‘Spice’ Before Attack
Boyfriend To Stand Trial For Attempted Murder
Daryl Huff KITV 4 News Reporter
POSTED: 6:32 pm HST April 7, 2010
HONOLULU —
A young woman testified in court Wednesday that her boyfriend brutally attacked her just moments after smoking what may be a popular, legally-available marijuana substitute.
Ola Marie Peyton said said she was nearly thrown off her 11th floor balcony by her boyfriend, Bryan Adam Roudebush, 23. She said he turned into a completely different person moments after smoking something he called “spice.” Roudebush bought two packets of what was apparently one of several available brands of incense soaked in a chemical that supposedly mimics marijuana.
She said his pupils were enlarged and his heart was racing and he was staring at her.
“Just this total blank stare, just right at me for two-three minutes, like he didn’t know who I was,” Peyton said.
She said Roudebush suddenly pulled his pants down to his knees and began touching himself while continuing to stare at her. Without warning he attacked her, and within moments, she was fighting for her life on their lanai above Ala Wai Boulevard, she said.
“I thought I was fighting for my life,” Peyton told a judge in district court. “I was screaming at the top of my lungs. Yelling at him, trying to swat at him, fight him off. There is no way that he could have thought I was playing around.”
Peyton said she escaped from his grip after he poked her eyes with his fingers and ripped out some of her hair.
Roudebush, an Army soldier, cried as Peyton said he was never violent with her. Although he apparently was in anger management classes after roughing up his ex-wife. She said she knew he used “spice” at least twice before, and it made him “goofy.”
The judge said there was enough evidence to hold Roudebush for trial for attempted murder. He’s being held on $100,000 bail.
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