Yogurt Store Owner Charged With Attempted Murder And Kidnapping
ALHAMBRA (CBS) — The owner of a Monterey Park yogurt store was charged Friday with kidnapping and attempted murder for allegedly attacking an employee, binding her with tape and locking her nearly naked in a box in a storage room.
Robert Yachen Lee, 37, is being held on $10 million bail while awaiting arraignment Sept. 16 in Alhambra Superior Court.
Lee, who owns O My Yogurt in the 2200 block of South Atlantic Boulevard, is accused of attacking the woman from behind after luring her to an upstairs storage roomon Wednesday morning.
The woman was bound with tape and lying face down when she awoke after blacking out, and had been put into a soundproofed box and placed in a recently padded and soundproofed room that was part of the storage suite, according to the District Attorney's Office.
The woman -- whose clothes were removed and who was dressed in an adult diaper with a collar around her neck -- managed to get out of her restraints and free herself from the box, prosecutors said. She went to a nearby optometry office and asked for police to be called.
Lee was arrested about noon the same day by Monterey Park police.
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