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WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A medical student accused in Boston of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist has been charged in Rhode Island with assaulting a stripper in a hotel.
Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch announced the arrest warrant Monday for Philip Markoff on assault and weapons counts.
Authorities previously said the 23-year-old Markoff was the suspect in the April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick.
An exotic dancer from Las Vegas who offered lap dances told Rhode Island authorities she was bound with cord and held at gunpoint by a man she met through Craigslist.
She said her assailant fled when her husband went to the hotel room.
Source: The Associated Press
