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The defendant has pleaded not guilty and will be the subject of a detention hearing Monday. Prosecutors are seeking to keep him in jail, writing in an affidavit that they "believe there is a danger" if he is released.

Prosecutors seeking to keep a kidnapping suspect in jail cited a woman’s report that he drove her to a remote area in Lane County, bound her hands and threatened her with a box cutter before raping her.

Jeremy Allen Johnson, 37, of Eugene, remains in Lane County Jail with a preventative detention hearing scheduled for Monday, June 23, in Lane County Circuit Court, according to court records.

“Based on the facts of this investigation, I believe there is a danger of physical injury or sexual victimization to the alleged victim or to members of the community if the defendant is released, and as such, he should be held in-custody pending the outcome of this case,” Deputy District Attorney Zori Cook wrote in a court filing.

Lane County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Johnson on May 28 after a woman reported being raped by a man not known to her.

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The Lane County Sheriff’s Office released this photo on May 27, asking for help identifying the man. The sheriff’s office the next day arrested 37-year-old Jeremy Allen Johnson in connection with a reported kidnapping and rape. Credit: Lane County Sheriff's Office

The sheriff’s office released to the public an image of a man and also a vehicle obtained from a store camera where the woman told investigators she had gone with the man before being assaulted, according to an affidavit by a Lane County Sheriff’s Office detective.

Information received after the release of the images led to Johnson’s arrest, according to the affidavit.

Johnson pleaded not guilty June 8 to first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sodomy, coercion, unlawful use of a weapon, menacing and possession of methamphetamine.

The woman told authorities a man May 23 drove up to her as she walked on Washington Street near Second Avenue in Eugene, asking her if she wanted to spend time together and talk, according to the affidavit.

She asked him if he knew her, and he said no, but that he had seen her before, the woman told investigators.

She got into the man’s car, and after talking with the man, he suggested going swimming and she agreed, the woman told investigators. After stopping at a store, he drove her to what the affidavit describes as a secluded Bureau of Land Management road, then to an unmarked, dead-end spur road, where the rape took place, she told investigators.

The woman said after they arrived, she got out of the vehicle but the man threw her to the ground, knocking the wind out of her, before kicking her and telling her to stick her hands out. Fearing for her life, she did so and the man took duct tape out of his pocket, binding her hands together, the affidavit states.

She told authorities the man drove away after raping her, leaving her stranded in the remote woods for over 24 hours, according to the affidavit.