Aaron Todd Rhone

Alias Name
1. Jackson, Aaron
2. Jackson, Eric
3. Jackson, Timothy
4. Johnson, Timothy
5. Rhode, Aaron
6. Rhone, Aaron T
7. Rhone, Aaron Todd
8. Rhone, Alan
9. Rhone, Allen
10. Rhone, Cash Money
11. Rhone, Earon
12. Rhone, Earon Todd
13. Rhone, Tod

Height: 5'9"
Weight: 230
DOB: 09/06/1965
Birth City: Ft. Lauderdale
Birth State: FL

Summary
We don’t know about Aaron Rhone’s history before age of 16, his criminal court
history starts one month after he turned 18 with a concealed weapon and prowling
charge. Rhone, born in Sunny Fort Lauderdale, would rack up 13 aliases and 10 grand
theft auto charges in ten years.

Rhone had one single drug possession on his extensive criminal history. In the
years of commandeering strangers vehicles for his own use, he spent very little
time in prison. Having a concealed weapon, possession of cocaine, and a stolen
vehicle, Rhone was reoffending in Palm Beach the following winter.

With the exception of the owners of the stolen cars, Rhone had not hurt anyone. At
least not on record. In October of 93, Rhone would be part of a highway shootout,
sending one innocent car into a truck, trying to avoid crossfire. Rhone was shot in
the leg while Richard Johns, the other occupant of the car, was grazed with a
bullet on his abdomen.
The altercation was a dispute over property. Given Rhone’s history of stealing,
it’s a good bet that the property wasn’t his. Right after that incident, Rhone
falls off the grid of a few years, maybe actually serving a sentence.

It takes no time at all for Rhone to hit the streets and liberate cars. Making up
for lost time, he steals and is caught three times in 2003. As forty approaches,
Rhone seems to settle down. Focusing on family and a non-criminal history with a
wife, Nadine. While they stay together for a couple of years, domestic violence
erupts. The couple did not share any children and divorced in 2012.
Rhone, ever the auto guy, got a job as a shuttle bus driver at Miami Dade airport.
In 2015, at age 50, Rhone’s DNA was linked to a disgusting crime.

March 15, 1983, in Plantation Florida, it was nine o’clock in the evening and a
mother was putting her young five-year-old son to bed. When she emerged from her
child’s room, she was met by RHONE, then 17 with a gun pointed at her husband’s
head.

Rhone ordered the couple to lay down on the floor. With belts, he began to tie up
the male, binding his hands and feet. With the 23-year-old mother, he demanded more
valuables, following her into the bedroom.

With her husband tied up and a gun in her face, Rhone asked her to pull down her
pants. The mother begged with Rhone to take whatever he wanted but to leave her
alone. His true colors began to emerge and he allegedly said “Do you see this
bullet? If you don't do what I tell you, I will shoot your head."

After raping the young mother, Rhone pressed the woman to give gold. He drove away
with the family’s car and $1600 in cash and jewelry.

The family car was found abandoned three days later. That would be the last lead
for 31 years. Under anonymity the family relocated and started fresh, hoping they
would one day see justice.

The Broward Sheriff’s Department kept ample evidence and have been working their
way through cold cases with DNA evidence. Rhone’s DNA matched the rape kit
collected in 1983. While facing charges, Rhone blurted out that he was a child when
it happened; incriminating himself in the old cold case.

The family wants to remain anonymous, rightly so. However, when law enforcement
contacted the couple, they were relieved and want Rhone to be prosecuted.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Two in car shot on turnpike

October 2, 1993, | Ocala Star-Banner (FL) Author: The Associated Press

MIAMI -- Two men were shot Friday while driving on Florida's Turnpike, but police
say the case doesn't appear to be another random attack.

The two victims, both Dade County residents, initially refused to cooperate with
investigating officers, police said.

One man was only slightly injured, and was released from Baptist Hospital after
treatment, said hospital spokeswoman Barbara Crown.

The second victim was listed in stable condition, she said.

Details of the shooting were sketchy.

Metro-Dade police spokeswoman JoAnne Norris said the two men said they were shot
from another car on a south Dade stretch of the turnpike. They drove on to a toll
booth, where they were transported to the hospital.

The two men -- identified as Richard Johns and Aaron Rhone -- said the shooting
occurred after a traffic altercation, police said, but the victims gave few
details.

TURNPIKE SHOOTING WAS BUSINESS RIFT

October 2, 1993 | Miami Herald, The (FL) Author: AARON RUBIN And ARNOLD MARKOWITZ
Herald Staff Writers

Gunshots fired on Florida's Turnpike wounded two men Friday afternoon. Within a few
hours, police determined that it was the result of a business disagreement, not of
strangers disputing the right of way.

Baptist Hospital listed Aaron Roam, 35, in good condition with a leg wound, and
Richard Johns, 46, with a superficial graze wound across the midsection. They were
passengers in a gold Volvo driven by Daniel Thompson, 32, who was not injured.

The other car, an off-white Nissan, was occupied by two men. One fired several
rounds of 9mm ammunition at the Volvo while driving north on the turnpike, the
victims complained to police. It happened slightly south of Southwest 152nd Street,
where the Nissan took the exit. The victims stopped at the next toll gate.

Metro-Dade detective Gadyaces Serralta said the victims admitted knowing who
attacked them but hesitated to mention names, a spokesman reported.

"He says there was some kind of altercation over property, and the subjects wanted
it back. We believe it was jewelry," said a police spokesman, Juan -DelCastillo.

Their enemies began pursuit at South Dixie Highway and Southwest 200th Street, FHP
duty officer Ken Wiggins said. When the shooting started, another driver trying to
get out of harm's way stepped on his brakes and swerved, hitting the back of a
passing pickup. Neither driver was injured

Nadine Rhone Petitioner vs. Aaron Rhone Respondent

Broward County Case Number: DVCE09000074State Reporting Number:
062009DR000074AXDVCECourt Type: FamilyCase Type: Domestic Violence
Incident Date: N/AFiling Date: 01/05/2009
Nadine Sherica Rhone Petitioner vs. Aaron Todd Rhone Respondent
Broward County Case Number: FMCE12010038State Reporting Number:
062012DR010038AXXXCECourt Type: FamilyCase Type: Diss. of Marriage + - DOM w/out
Children
Incident Date: N/AFiling Date: 08/21/2012

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/plantation/fl-plantation-rape-arrest-
from-1983-20150723-story.html

DNA match leads to arrest in 1983 rape, home invasion

By MIKE CLARY
SUN SENTINEL
JUL 23, 2015 AT 7:50 PM

More than three decades after he allegedly raped a Plantation woman during a home
invasion robbery, Aaron Rhone has been arrested and charged with sexual battery and
armed burglary after a DNA match linked him to the crime, police said.

More than three decades after he allegedly raped a Plantation woman during a home
invasion robbery, a 49-year-old Miami man has been arrested and charged with sexual
battery, kidnapping and armed burglary after a DNA match linked him to the crime,
police said.

Aaron Todd Rhone was linked to an assault that occurred in 1983 after detectives
took another look at dozens of cold cases that had not been worked for years,
according to Plantation police.

During his first appearance before a judge Thursday, Rhone ignored the advice of a
public defender to remain silent and cried out, "I was 17 years old. I was just a
child."

Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley ordered Rhone held without bond. He is charged with
two counts each of armed burglary and battery, armed sexual battery and armed
kidnapping.

"They were somewhat shocked, in disbelief, that after all this time we had finally
located the person who did this to them," said Detective Brian Kendall, who worked
the case and delivered news of the arrest to the victims, now in their 60s. "It has
not been easy to live with this."

The prosecution of Rhone, who was 17 at the time of the alleged assault, began
after Plantation police earlier this year scoured their evidence room for cold
cases that could be prosecuted. Because the charges, in this case, involve armed
sexual battery and kidnapping, there is no statute of limitations, Kendall said.

The stored evidence in this case included a rape kit, sheets, a comforter,
clothing, a belt and even a mattress, Kendall said.
On May 15 the evidence was submitted to the Broward Sheriff's Office crime lab. A
DNA "hit" came back related to Rhone, Kendall said.

Rhone was arrested about 10 days ago as he showed up for work at Miami
International Airport, where he was a shuttle driver, the detective said.

The assault began about 9 p.m. on March 15, 1983, as the couple were putting their
5-year-old son to bed, when an armed man who entered their house on Northwest 46th
Avenue through an unlocked door, police said.

The man pointed the gun at the man and threatened to blow his head off, according
to the police report filed in the case.

When the man's wife walked out of the child's bedroom, the gunman ordered them both
to return to the room, where they were directed to lie on the floor. The intruder
bound the man's hands and feet with belts, police said.

Demanding money and jewelry, he then followed the woman to the master bedroom,
where he ordered her to pull down her pants, police said.

She pleaded with the gunman to leave her alone, telling him he could take whatever
he wanted.

"Do you see this bullet? If you don't do what I tell you, I will shoot your head,"
he allegedly told her.

He then raped the woman, the report said.

Afterward he pointed the gun at her head and demanded, "Give me some more gold,
give me some more gold," police said.

The gunman fled in the couple's 1977 Toyota Celica with about $1,600 worth of
jewelry and cash.

The car was recovered three days later, but the case was declared inactive in 1984.

At the time of the assault, Rhone was living in Fort Lauderdale, less than half a
mile from where the victim's car was recovered, police said.

When told of the arrest, the couple — who now live in Boca Raton — requested Rhone
be prosecuted and asked Kendall for information about the suspect. "They wanted to
know who he was," said Kendall.
Much of Rhone's life has been well-documented. Rhone has a long arrest record for
charges that include burglary, cocaine possession, carrying a concealed weapon and
grand theft. He has served several stints in prison, according to records from the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Corrections.

In court Hurley asked Rhone if he had money for a defense. "I'm homeless at this
point, sir," he said. "I lost everything."

Kendall said he and other detectives who worked on the case "feel great for the
victims to finally see justice. We're happy for them. This was such a heinous crime
against them and now they have a name to put to the face."

As for Rhone, Kendall said he was not surprised to hear that in court the defendant
offered up his youth as a defense. "It is self-serving," he said. "The only thing
he regrets is that he was caught."

Staff researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.

mwclary@tribune.com