Chapman Edward Swindell, 38, from Lewisville, Texas, allegedly sexually assaulted at least 14 women after bribing them with free or cheap tattoos at a parlor in North Richland Hills
A tattoo artist from North Texas allegedly sexually assaulted at least 14 women after bribing them with free or cheap tattoos at a parlor in North Richland Hills.
Chapman Edward Swindell, 38, from Lewisville, Texas, apparently told women he would do it for free as he wanted to ‘build his profile’ , the Dallas Morning News reported.
Swindell, who calls himself ‘Eddie Bigbee’, would only fill in some of the tattoo before ordering them to take their clothes off.
If they refused he would offer them drugs or alcohol, such as Hydrocodone, PCP and methamphetamine, and then forcibly hold the women down and rape them.
One woman said she went back to her apartment with Swindell so he could finish a tattoo.
During the inking she told him to stop as it was painful; Swindell said ‘it will be fine’ and offered her a whiskey and coke to numb the pain, the affidavit stated.
She refused the drink and he asked her ‘If I gave you something to take the pain away, that no one would know about but us, would you want that?’
Swindell has been in and out of prison and is pictured here in two separate undated mug shots
According to the report he continued inking her by drawing tattoo designs on the woman’s thighs and began sexually assaulting the woman with his fingers and then raped her.
The woman also said he started grabbing her hair and yelling at her. She asked him to stop multiple times but he told her, ‘it will be fine.’
After the woman in question reported Swindell to the police. investigators found 13 other women who said they had been sexually assaulted by him, WFAA-TV reported.
The affidavit said Swindell would use his ‘size and brute’ to pin down the victims and rape them, shouting at the women to ‘do what I tell you!’
Swindell was arrested and charged on January 27 on a million dollar bond.
According to authorities, this isn’t the first time Swindell has run into trouble with the law.
He was previously accused of aggravated assault and served two years of a six year prison sentence between 2011 and 2013 for unlawful restraint with risk of serious bodily injury.
More recently, in 2017, he spent six months in jail for attempting to injure an elderly person.