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Cleveland, Tennessee, man charged with 5 counts of rape, arrested after standoff with deputies

  photo  Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office / Ayodeji Olamide Ajayi
 
 


A Cleveland, Tennessee, man faces five rape charges after being arrested following a standoff with deputies Monday night.

Ayodeji Olamide Ajayi, 39, reportedly refused to surrender to deputies from Hamilton and Bradley counties trying to serve him a warrant in Cleveland on Monday, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.

Ajayi is charged with rape, four counts of aggravated rape, domestic assault, sexual battery, aggravated kidnapping and burglary in an incident reported May 12 in Chattanooga.

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