Police Seek Man Accused of Attempted Rape in Apple Valley

A warrant has been issued for a Rosemount man charged with attempted rape, after an April incident in which say he threatened to rape a woman in the parking lot of an Apple Valley bar.

Gilbert Edward Gage, 49, faces a felony charge of fourth-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct, which carries a maximum penalty of two and a half years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Police nationwide have been asked to look for him.

According to the criminal complaint, Gage was at an Apple Valley bar in early April with a woman who told police that they argued after she refused to move out of state with him.

The woman said she left the bar after Gage, but when she got to the parking lot, she spotted him sitting in his car, according to the complaint. When she got into her own car, Gage approached and tried to open her locked car door.

The woman said she rolled down her window to find out what he wanted, and Gage told her that he was too drunk to drive. When the woman offered to call a cab for him, he asked why she wouldn’t drive him home, and she agreed, the complaint says.

Once Gage was inside her car, the woman told police, he tried to kiss her. She told him to stop and get out of the car.

Instead, the woman said, Gage jumped on her and threatened to rape her, telling her that she was worth going to jail for if he could have her one more time, according to the complaint.

The two struggled, and Gage touched the woman inappropriately, the complaint says. He eventually backed away and became emotional, according to the complaint.

Police subsequently spoke to a friend of Gage’s, who said Gage told him that he had tried to rape the woman, and asked him to tell her that he was “going to get treatment,” according to the complaint.