JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Disturbing new details are emerging in the case of a Jacksonville man accused of sexually assaulting multiple women at his apartment, including a warning distributed to residents before his arrest.
An alleged victim of 31-year-old Brett Pincomb contacted the News4JAX I-TEAM and shared flyers that friends distributed at the Pointe Meadows apartment complex on Jacksonville’s Southside. The flyer reads, “Attention, your neighbor is a rapist.”
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According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Pincomb later confessed to sexually assaulting at least five women at his apartment. Police said he met the women online through “Skip the Games,” which investigators described as an escort/prostitution website.
In each incident, Pincomb produced a knife or a stun gun, police said, and either attempted to or forced the victims to have sex with him.
In a newly obtained police report, investigators described one alleged assault in which the suspect restrained the victim and threatened her.
Police said Pincomb sexually assaulted four women over three days. After the most recent reported assault, the victim contacted police, according to investigators. Others distributed flyers around the complex warning residents before Pincomb was arrested.
One resident, who asked not to be identified, said she did not receive a flyer and questioned its credibility because it did not include a name or source.
“If this flyer had been on my door in my mailbox, I’d say, where does it come from? Because there’s no ID, any information here that tells you, is it true?” she said.
The resident said she was familiar with Pincomb and described him as seeming “odd” during brief encounters around the neighborhood.
“He would come out in the neighborhood and walk pretty regularly any time of the year,” she said. “He would saunter, not walk. There was something different about his gait.”
She said apartment management held a meeting with residents after the arrest and told them the situation was an isolated incident handled by police. She also described seeing emergency vehicles at the complex early one morning.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told News4JAX it was aware of the flyers and said they helped investigators identify another alleged victim.