(Editor’s note: On Oct. 30, 2025, Mario Rodriguez Ibarra pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition. Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Bill Sperlazza sentenced Ibarra to 18 months in prison and ordered him to register as a Tier II sexual offender.)
A Columbus man remains in jail after a woman said he sexually assaulted her at gunpoint after she went to his home to get a tattoo.
Mario Rodriguez Ibarra, 22, of the East Side, is charged with rape and kidnapping, Franklin County Municipal Court records show.
According to court records, the woman and Ibarra had begun talking through Facebook on Thursday. The woman told police she had expressed interest in getting a tattoo from him and arranged to come to his home on 13th Avenue, court records show.
Ibarra and another male acquaintance of his came to the woman’s home and picked her up to take her to Ibarra’s home, court records show. While the woman was in Ibarra’s bedroom, he pulled a handgun and pulled her clothes off of her before sexually assaulting her, according to court records.
The woman told police she managed to get dressed and walked out of the home to ask the male acquaintance for help after Ibarra had fallen asleep. That acquaintance called the police and waited with the woman until Columbus police officers arrived for help.
Court records show that while the woman and Ibarra’s acquaintance were waiting for police, Ibarra reportedly came outside and admitted to forcing the woman to have sex with him at gunpoint.
Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Zach Gwin set Rodriguez Ibarra’s bond at $750,000 during a hearing on Saturday.
bbruner@gannett.com
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: East Side man raped woman who came to him for tattoo at gunpoint, records say
Reporting by Bethany Bruner, Columbus Dispatch / The Columbus Dispatch
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