A 47-year-old woman jumped to safety from a moving car in Southeast Portland early Friday morning to escape a stranger who had offered to give her a ride but then wouldn’t let her out of his car, police said.

Portland police arrested 25-year-old Ra Fet about an hour later at Northeast 82nd Avenue and Beech Street, an area of Northeast Portland that The Oregonian/OregonLive chronicled in 2022 as a microcosm of Portland’s ongoing battle with gun violence, homelessness, addiction and sex trafficking.

The woman, whom police did not identify, jumped from a car allegedly being driven by Fet at Southeast 112th Avenue and Lincoln Street around 1:30 a.m. She told police she had been picked up at Southeast 146th Avenue and Division Street.

Fet faces charges of kidnapping, sexual abuse, coercion, menacing, assault, reckless driving and recklessly endangering another person.

Last year, Portland police arrested Fet on accusations of menacing, criminal mischief and driving under the influence of intoxicants after a woman accused Fet of screaming at her and her 9-year-old son while holding what appeared to be a hatchet and a gun, according to court records. She said he pointed the gun at her and told her, “I’m going to kill you.”

He pleaded no contest to the charge of DUII and entered diversion. He was also convicted of menacing and second-degree criminal mischief and sentenced to 31 days in jail and 18 months of probation, until May 21, 2025.

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