Pensacola man charged with kidnapping Mobile teen, now accused of rape

Pensacola man charged with kidnapping Mobile teen, now accused of rape

A Pensacola man already charged with the kidnapping of a Mobile teen from a local nightclub in September 2021 has now been charged with raping the 18-year-old girl.

Court records show Morris Linson Jr., 35, had been arrested last September after a grand jury returned an indictment for 2nd degree kidnapping and breaking and entering of a vehicle.

He posted $37,500 bond and was released on conditions he have no contact with the victim and wear an ankle monitor.

Monday, Linson was arrested again, this time on the rape charge. He again posted bond, this time $60,000, and was released.

The rape indictment alleges Linson “did engage in sexual intercourse with another person, who was incapable of consent by reason of being incapacitated.”

During the initial investigation, friends of the victim told Mobile police they placed her in the back of a vehicle outside Troubadours Country Saloon after she had become intoxicated, according to a report by WKRG.

Surveillance video from outside the club shows an SUV pulling alongside the car about 3:30 a.m. and then driving away moments later, police said during Linson’s preliminary hearing last November. A detective said he believed the driver of the SUV was Linson.

Additional video shows the same SUV later pulling alongside a parked truck on the University of South Alabama campus. A person is seen getting out of the SUV, removing a passenger and then placing that person in the bed of the truck, a detective testified.

The victim was not a USA student, according to police.