Police in Nebraska on Friday arrested a man who is accused of sexually assaulting former Arizona Sen. Martha McSally while she was on a run in a neighboring Iowa city.
Jail records in Douglas County show that Dominic M. Henton, 25, had been booked in Omaha on a sexual abuse charge in connection to the Wednesday attack on Ms. McSally.
Ms. McSally said in an Instagram post that she was running by the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, when a man “came up behind me, and he engulfed me in a bear hug, and he molested and fondled me until I fought him off.”
An arrest warrant from Council Bluffs police said Mr. Henton was identified by a combination of credit card information retrieved from a nearby restaurant and surveillance footage that showed Ms. McSally and the suspect walking at Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park.
Police said the suspect is being held without bond in Omaha and is awaiting extradition to Council Bluffs.
Ms. McSally, a Republican, said in 2019 that she was raped while serving in the Air Force.
“I know it’s tapped into a nerve of other sexual abuse and assault that I’ve been through in the past — which I’ve healed from as much as I feel can be done, but in this case, I felt like I took my power back,” Ms. McSally said in her Instagram post addressing Wednesday’s assault.
The former Air Force colonel was appointed to fill Sen. John McCain’s seat after McCain died in office in 2018. She lost her reelection in 2020 to Democrat Mark Kelly.
• Matt Delaney can be reached at mdelaney@washingtontimes.com.
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