Cargle, 30, then turned against one of the women after the first victim escaped, leading to the second victim being beaten, raped and assaulted by co-defendants before jumping out of a trunk of a moving car, the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office memo said.
Cargle was to be sentenced Wednesday, but he told Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Skelton that he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea and change his attorney.
Cargle had agreed to a plea deal with Montgomery County prosecutors — negotiated by then-attorney Anthony VanNoy — and was to be sentenced from 10 to 15 years.
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During Wednesday’s hearing, Skelton told Cargle he needed to realize the gravity of his request, since the indicted counts could theoretically lead to a 52-year sentence.
The judge also scheduled a hearing for Nov. 2 after a new attorney had time to talk with Cargle about the plea deal.
“As you sit here right now, you were about to be sentenced with a sentencing range of 10 to 15,” Skelton said. “Be careful for what you wish for.”
Cargle answered, “Yes,” when Skelton asked him if he understood. VanNoy said he would file a motion to withdraw as counsel.
Two co-defendants — Jennifer Rice and Cassidy Lake — were to be sentenced today , but court officials said that hearing will be continued.
“I’m actually very surprised,” assistant prosecutor Hope Taylor said after the hearing. “The defendant entered a guilty plea, and we took him at his word, and that’s why we decided to bring the victim advocates to make statements on behalf of our victims.”
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In asking for the maximum 15-year sentence in the memo, Taylor wrote about Cargle’s Nov. 25, 2016 plan to get back the first victim after “things went south” between them.
“This plan included wining and dining (the first victim), bringing her back to his place to make up and then kidnap her and place her in a dog cage,” Taylor wrote, mentioning that co-defendant Rice was assigned to purchase “ski masks, pepper spray and a Taser and playing the role of one of (the first victim’s) kidnappers.”
The memo detailed the kidnapping plot played out at co-defendant Lake’s home on Sheridan Avenue. Wearing only a bra, the first victim was pepper-sprayed and Tased, forced down into a dark basement and into a dog cage, her hands zip-tied, chained and attached to dumbbells, according to the memo.
Lake was enlisted to help the next day and provided the first victim with a Lunchable and drink, a sweatshirt, pants and a solo cup in which to urinate, Taylor wrote.
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Later, the first victim was beaten and had her urine poured over her as the women jostled the cage, according to the memo.
The co-defendants and another woman did drugs, according to the memo, and the third woman (and second victim) was assigned the night watch of the first victim.
After the first victim escaped, all four people drove in two cars to find her, but were unable to, according to the memo.
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Taylor wrote that Cargle hit the second victim in the head with a piece of wood, poured antifreeze on her, told the co-defendants to strip the woman naked, tie her up and rape her with a rusted window weight.
After being put in a trunk, the memo said, the naked second victim pulled the trunk release and landed on a Dayton road where a concerned citizen called 911.
Taylor wrote that Cargle paid a soon-to-be released jail inmate $100 to threaten the second victim and wrote unanswered letters to his co-defendants and victims.
“The only reason (Cargle) did not kill, cause further harm to the victims or stop his egregious behavior was because they escaped and lived to tell about it,” Taylor wrote.
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