Sex Offender Turns Himself In On Charges Of Kidnapping, Sexual Battery

A convicted Volusia sex offender wanted for kidnapping, drugging and raping a woman near Orange City has been arrested, a sheriff's spokesman said Wednesday.Jason Minton, 39, of Orange City, turned himself in Tuesday night at the Volusia County Branch jail where he is being held without bail on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery, said sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson.The 20-year-old woman said she met Jason Minton on July 6 and agreed to go out with him for dinner but Minton instead took her to a bar where he bought her several drinks, sheriff's investigators said.After leaving the bar, Minton took the woman to his home in the 200 block of West Minnesota Avenue home and forced an unknown pill down her throat, Davidson said.As the incapacitated woman faded in and out of consciousness, she realized Minton was sexually battering her.