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Man arrested after allegedly drugging woman’s food in order to rape her

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ST. ANTHONY – A man was arrested Wednesday after a woman reported he had been drugging her food with meth in order to rape her.

Bryan Frank Wilding, 51, was charged with two counts of felony rape, misdemeanor domestic battery and misdemeanor injury to a child.

On April 18, a deputy with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office interviewed a woman after she reported she was experiencing domestic abuse.

The victim said she had been being abused by Wilding for the last 15 years, and he had been putting meth in her food, drinks, and medicines in order to rape her.

She told deputies Wilding would also “attempt to introduce smoked methamphetamine vapors into her bedroom.”

According to court documents, Wilding would smoke the methamphetamine and blow the smoke into her bedroom via a tube.

When deputies asked how Wilding was drugging her, she explained that he would break open her medicine capsules and put methamphetamine into the capsules. He would also mix the drug into coffee, sweet tea or her water bottle.

She also stated she has never been a “willing drug user” and has never consented to use methamphetamine any of the times Wilding had reportedly drugged her.

When asked how many times Wilding has attempted to drug her, she approximated the number to be once a week for the last 15 years.

She told officers a child had witnessed Wilding drug her. When the deputy interviewed the child, he told them he witnessed the victim confronting Wilding about drugging her. He says Wilding told her, “I don’t care. Drugging you is the only way I can get you to have sex!”

The child also told the deputy that he had taken drinks out of the victim’s water bottle and bites of her food multiple times and felt “jittery and unable to sleep” afterward.

The victim told the deputy she had attempted to hide and protect evidence of Wilding drugging her food, but he would become “paranoid” and search for things she was hiding. He would eventually find the evidence and take it from her.

She also accused Wilding of keeping her in the home against her will. The victim says she would attempt to leave the home, and Wilding would “grab her by the arms, and or shoulders, and force her into a bedroom,” making her unable to leave.

In one incident, the victim described an event where she confronted Wilding about his meth use. She says she threatened to call his probation officer, so Wilding tried to grab her phone from her hand.

In the midst of the struggle, the victim claims he broke her finger.

On May 1, deputies interviewed the victim again, who told them she asked Wilding to buy her a bottle of alcohol. She later made a mixed drink with it and said she “felt the effects of methamphetamine approximately 15 to 30 minutes after eating dinner and drinking the alcohol given to her by (Wilding).”

She kept the bottle of alcohol and gave it to the deputy for further examination.

Court documents do not detail any kind of interview with Wilding. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and he appeared in court on Wednesday. His bond was set to $100,000, and a no-contact order was issued for the victims.

Though Wilding has been charged with these crimes, it does not necessarily mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed innocent until they are proven guilty.

Wilding is expected to appear for a preliminary hearing on May 16. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.

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