California cops have arrested a man they say forced his pregnant girlfriend to take drugs at gunpoint so she would have a miscarriage.
Jagmeet Sandhu, 23, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder, domestic assault and false imprisonment, Bakersfield Police said.
Cops say one of the woman’s relatives contacted police shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday to say the unidentified victim “had been held at gunpoint and forced by her boyfriend to ingest numerous unknown-type pills in an effort to force a miscarriage.”
Officers located the woman at a local hospital where she allegedly confirmed the relative’s statement.
“The victim did in-fact have a miscarriage as a result of the incident,” police said in a statement.
Search warrants executed at locations associated with Sandhu turned up evidence that corroborated the reported offenses, police said.
Sandhu was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Kern County Jail. It wasn’t immediately clear Thursday if he had a defense lawyer.
Former Manhattan restaurateur Joshua Woodward is now serving a 9-year prison sentence in California for slipping his girlfriend the early-term abortion drug mosoprostol before she miscarried in 2009.
