Javier Trujillo

Javier Trujillo makes his preliminary appearance in Yakima County Superior Court Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Trujillo was arrested on a warrant charging him with kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend, as well as violating a protection order multiple times. He is also facing a possible rape charge.

A Toppenish area man accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend with a pry bar has been charged with rape.

Javier Trujillo, 28, is charged with second-degree rape, second-degree assault and two counts of violating a no-contact order. Each charge also carries a domestic violence enhancement. He was arraigned on those charges on Sept. 23.

Trujillo is currently being held in the Yakima County jail on a combined bail of $775,000 for multiple charges.

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Trujillo was out on bail while awaiting trial on prior charges of felony violation of a protection order, second-degree assault and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm on June 9, when the woman told a police officer in King County that Trujillo had raped her earlier in a trailer they lived in west of Wapato, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Yakima County Sheriff鈥檚 Office.

She said that Trujillo had given her an illicit drug that made her heart race, the affidavit said. She was able to get away from him several days later when, she said, he made her drive him to a drug dealer鈥檚 house and she drove off when he got out of the vehicle.

Sheriff鈥檚 deputies met with her again on Aug. 27 at the Toppenish Police Department, where she told them Trujillo assaulted her days earlier in Toppenish, a second affidavit said.

Trujillo had become upset after missing a visit with his children on Aug. 22 and blamed her for it. He punched her twice in the nose and told her he should have killed her, the affidavit said.

Around 12:30 a.m. Aug. 24, she was at a Winaway Road home with Trujillo, and when he got out of the vehicle she tried to drive off. Trujillo stood in front of the vehicle blocking her, then climbed on the hood of the vehicle as she drove and got in the vehicle through a rear window, the affidavit said.

Inside the vehicle, Trujillo hit her in the back of her head with his fists five or six times, the affidavit said and pulled her out by her hair. Arming himself with a prybar, Trujillo hit her in the back with the tool and tried to hit her in the head but she blocked the blow with her left hand, breaking her little finger.

The attack also broke one of the vertebrae in her lower back, the affidavit said.

After the attack, Trujillo forced her to get back in the vehicle and he drove her around to various places for hours while she begged him to take her to the hospital. He finally took her to Astria Toppenish Hospital, the affidavit said, where she was treated for her injuries.

Court Commissioner Brooke Wright signed a warrant for Trujillo鈥檚 arrest Aug. 28 charging him with first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, four counts of violating a court order and two counts of fourth-degree assault, with all charges carrying a domestic-violence enhancement.

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