As recalled by the 14-year-old, who was a student at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School at the time, a friend picked her up later that evening and drove her to a house party in North Miami Beach to see a guy she liked.
Upon arriving, she said she took more Xanax and was eventually invited into a bedroom, where she drank a Smirnoff Ice.
While the teen couldn't remember much else from that night, she told police that multiple boys — including the now-infamous Alexander twins, Alon and Oren — gang-raped her at the party, as documented in a 27-page police investigative report into the 2003 incident.
Though heavily redacted, the North Miami Beach Police Department (NMBPD) investigative report (obtained by New Times and attached at the bottom of this story) offers a glimpse into just one of the earlier incidents of alleged sexual assault involving Miami real estate brokers Oren and Alon, now 37, whom federal agents recently arrested along with their 38-year-old brother, Tal, on charges of sex trafficking.
The three brothers are accused of working together since at least 2010 to "repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape" dozens of victims in New York and Miami. Prosecutors allege that their behavior began when they were high schoolers in Miami.
The gang rape allegations described in the 2003 North Miami Beach incident closely mirror an alleged incident on New Year's Eve 2016, in which Alon and Oren are accused of gang-raping a woman along with their friend, Ohad Fisherman.
But while the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office (SAO) announced on December 11 that it would pursue charges against the twins in connection with the alleged 2016 incident, it did not seek charges against Alon and Oren, both of whom were in high school at the time, for the alleged March 2003 rape.
At the time, NMBPD officers interviewed several boys from Krop, including Oren and Alon, as part of their investigation into the incident. But then-Assistant State Attorney Barty Quinnelly decided against filing charges against the Alexander brothers.
"It was the opinion of the Assistant State Attorney, Barty Quinnelly, that no criminal charges could be filed in the case due to the inconsistencies of the statements made by the victim, contradicting witnesses, insufficient evidence, and the fact that the defendants admitted to having sexual intercourse with the victim," the 2003 investigative report states.
Quinnelly, who served as an assistant state attorney for Miami-Dade County for two decades, died in 2017.
She was working under the current Miami-Dade County state attorney, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, who has been re-elected to the role six times since 1993.
In an emailed response to New Times' request for comment, Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office spokesman Ed Griffith explained that prosecutors "have an ethical obligation to believe that they have sufficient evidence to prove a criminal charge beyond a reasonable doubt before they can proceed with a criminal charge filed by a police agency. Ethically, lacking such a sufficiency of evidence, a prosecutor is required to drop such charges."
"She Passed Out"
It's unclear precisely what roles the Alexander twins played in the alleged spring 2003 gang rape, owing to the heavily redacted police report for the incident, which first resurfaced in a July Wall Street Journal story.But an NMBPD spokesperson confirmed to New Times that Alon and Oren Alexander were listed as suspects in the department's sexual battery inquiry.
Joel Denaro, an attorney for the brothers, has not responded to a phone call, text message, and email from New Times seeking comment for this story.
The allegations in the 2003 report closely resemble what prosecutors have claimed the Alexander brothers boasted of having done while they were in high school at Krop: "running trains" on their victims.
An August New York magazine story mentions that Krop's senior yearbook included "a page with the prompt 'What was your most memorable moment at Krop?' Oren’s answer: 'Riding my first "choo-choo" train.'"
According to the March 2003 investigative report, the teen victim recalled being called over to a bedroom at the North Miami Beach house party and having sex with someone, although she couldn't recall if she "wanted to have sex with him." After they finished, she said she got dressed and two other boys immediately entered the room. The report notes that she couldn't recall whether she had sex with them.
Shortly after, the girl told police, she walked out of the room and re-entered. She remembered asking someone for alcohol and "dozing off," according to the report, before having sex with that person as well. She recalled that the person's condom broke at one point.
Police also interviewed the girl's mother, who prefaced her remarks by explaining that her daughter "tells her virtually everything" and that they spoke on a daily basis. The mother said the girl had told her about the Smirnoff Ice.
"Someone brought it to her, and she passed out," the woman told police, according to the report. "Next thing she knew, there was someone else with her in bed. Sometime after that, she was inside a bathroom where some guys were trying to hide her."
The victim recalled hiding in a bathtub as she heard her father and a cousin enter the home where the party was being held and yell her name, according to the report. That night, she said, her family brought her to a local hospital, but she couldn't remember anything about the visit.
The following Monday at school, she was seen crying hysterically, according to the report. She told a guidance counselor what happened and that person called the police.
The next day, Tuesday, March 11, a police detective accompanied the girl and her father to the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where a doctor conducted a rape examination, according to the report. The doctor provided the detective with a copy of the examination report when the exam was concluded.
In response to New Times' request for a copy of the report, an NMBPD spokesperson explained that the department is prohibited from releasing the documentation because the victim was a minor at the time.
