An Arizona man allegedly arranged for a stranger he met online to sexually assault his fiancée inside their home.
On October 16, Bella Torres was caring for her two young children at their home in Buckeye, a Phoenix suburb, when a stranger forced his way inside and allegedly attempted to sexually assault her, police said.
Torres fought off the man, later identified by police as 20-year-old Adrian Ayala, and forced him out of the house. Surveillance video from the driveway shows Ayala stumbling and saying, “I’m on drugs,” as Torres keeps him at arm’s length.
Torres can then be heard asking Ayala, “What the f*** is wrong with you?!” before slapping him and continuing to hold him at a distance.
“Your boyfriend sent me,” Ayala replies in the footage. “He told me you were into this.”
Torres responds, “Yeah right. What’s his name? How the f*** do you know him?” Ayala answers, “It was on Reddit.”
Ayala left before police arrived, but officers arrested him the following day at his home in Goodyear, a suburb next to Buckeye.
Torres initially doubted Ayala’s account, while her fiancé, 23-year-old Zarian Dyer, denied involvement in the attempted assault. Police have since accused Dyer of organizing the attack.
Zarian Dyer, 23, is accused of recruiting a stranger through Reddit to sexually assault his wife last month
Dyer was arrested on Thursday and charged with aggravated assault, sexual abuse, attempted sexual assault, kidnapping, conspiracy and other offenses
The man Dyer allegedly recruited, Adrian Ayala, 20, was arrested on October 17, one day after he allegedly attempted to sexually assault Torres
Over the following two weeks, detectives investigating the case seized Ayala’s electronic devices along with Dyer’s phone.
Investigators found “evidence that Ayala and Dyer were communicating about the planned assault,” the Buckeye Police Department said in a statement.
Dyer was arrested at work on Thursday and faced “a long list of charges including aggravated assault, sexual abuse, attempted sexual assault, kidnapping and conspiracy,” according to Buckeye police.
Investigators said they have not identified a motive for the alleged plot.
According to court documents obtained by AZFamily, Ayala allegedly choked Torres after forcing his way into the home and tried to remove her clothing as she fought back by kicking and hitting him.
During the alleged assault, Ayala kicked Torres’s 17-month-old child, causing the toddler to fall and hit their head.
Before the attack, Dyer allegedly sent Ayala messages on Reddit saying he wanted someone to force themselves on his fiancée and asking, “Are you down?” court documents state.
Dyer also allegedly instructed Ayala not to tell Torres about the plan and said he should continue even if she fought back, according to the documents.
Surveillance footage from the home’s driveway shows Torres slapping Ayala after fighting him off and forcing him out of the house
When Torres asked Ayala what he was doing, the man replied that her fiance said she would be ‘into it’ and that they met on Reddit
At the time of the attack, Dyer intentionally left his fiancée alone and went to get groceries while coordinating with Ayala, telling him to ‘get here faster’ and that he was ‘trynna fake kill time,’ according to the documents.
Dyer also allegedly told Ayala that he had ‘consent’ to commit the assault because ‘I own her and her body.’
During police questioning, Dyer allegedly initially told detectives that he would never want someone to hurt his fiancée and claimed that Ayala’s story about being recruited for the sexual assault was ‘bullc***.’
When confronted with his messages and other evidence, however, Dyer was allegedly uncooperative and answered evasively. He also allegedly did not consent to taking a polygraph about the Reddit messages.
Dyer’s bond was set at $500,000 following his arrest.
Ayala’s bond was set at $25,000 when he was arrested on October 17. He soon posted bail and was released.