CONCORD, CA - October 8: Officers investigate a fatal crash involving a Contra Costa Sheriff's Office deputy that took place after 9 p.m. on Oct. 7 on the westbound Highway 4 on ramp of CA 242 North in Concord, California. Police on scene confirmed that no deputy was injured in the crash, while a white Toyota Prius was towed away from the Highway 4 on ramp early Thursday, October 8, 2020. (Dylan Bouscher/Bay Area News Group)
CONCORD — More than three years after he was convicted of pimping a teen girl, an El Sobrante man is back in jail facing serious charges — this time, that he kidnapped a woman after ramming her with his car during an intense argument here, court records show.
Roderick Parrish III, 25, is charged with kidnapping, assault, dissuading a witness, and a mix of other misdemeanors and felonies related to the Jan. 19 incident. He cannot be bailed out of jail and isn’t due in court again until mid-June, records show.
Police in Concord say Parrish was driving a woman from his home in El Sobrante when they argued inside his vehicle, and that he struck her after she grabbed the steering wheel. When the woman threatened to call 911, Parrish allegedly threw her cellphone out of the vehicle, and when she exited the car to retrieve it, he allegedly accelerated into her, causing her to flip over the hood.
Parrish then allegedly picked the woman up, placed her back in the car, and got back on Highway 4. He eventually dropped her off at a fast food restaurant in Bay Point, authorities said.
In 2020, Parrish was sentenced to three years in state prison after pleading no contest to pimping a 16-year-old girl in Alameda County. In that case, police said they found a sexually explicit video of Parrish with the girl and that he trafficked her for a month in 2018, when he was 19 years old.
After this more recent Jan. 19 incident, police say they found evidence that Parrish attempted to recruit the woman into prostitution and that she refused, but prosecutors have not filed any pandering-related charges.
Originally published at Nate Gartrell