{"id":1031877,"date":"2026-08-29T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1031877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:13:16","slug":"man-faces-sexual-assault-kidnapping-charges-in-phoenix-canal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1031877\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces sexual assault, kidnapping charges in Phoenix canal attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man is accused of sexually assaulting and strangling a woman with a dog leash before allegedly throwing her into a Phoenix canal, prosecutors say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Jimmy Cluff, 48, appeared before a judge early Saturday morning on five charges of aggravated assault, two charges of kidnapping, and one charge of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to state prosecutors, Cluff sexually assaulted and strangled the victim, using a dog leash to restrain and choke her. Prosecutors also allege he threw the woman into a canal and threw rocks at her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cluff is also accused of abusing a dog at some point, though it is unclear exactly when the alleged offenses happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State prosecutor Ashley Stetson called the allegations against Cluff \u201cegregious\u201d and argued he poses a danger to the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Cluff was assigned a public defender with a bond set at $300,000 cash. He is due back in court for a status conference on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A man is accused of sexually assaulting and strangling a woman with a dog leash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1031878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[54511,5229,5643,30763,412742,1587,7182,412740,1589,412741,9497,7183,11311,10409,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1031877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-news","tag-ashley-stetson","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-jimmy-cluff","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-canal-attack","tag-phoenix-crime","tag-phoenix-news","tag-phoenix-police-department","tag-sexual-assault","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117181337394961323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}