Longtime Kansas City restaurant owner is charged with raping two women

A longtime Kansas City restaurant owner has been charged with sexually assaulting two women.

Arturo Cabral, 44, was charged Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court with three counts of rape.

Cabral has been the longtime owner of El Patron on Southwest Boulevard, but a spokeswoman for the restaurant said Friday he no longer owns the business.

The charges involve incidents in 2015 and 2016 with two alleged victims.

The first incident reportedly occurred at a midtown Kansas City hotel in November 2015.

A 32-year-old woman told Kansas City police that she met Cabral at a bar on the Country Club Plaza.

She said that while talking at the bar, Cabral “casually” unzipped her shirt and asked if she wanted to get a hotel room, according to court documents.

She refused. Cabral then ordered her a drink, and she asked for a glass of water.

The woman told police she doesn’t remember anything after that until she woke up about eight hours later in a hotel room.

She was naked and found her clothes in a pile on the bathroom floor.

The woman took a cab to get her car parked on the Plaza. When she got home, she got sick and went to a hospital where she underwent a sexual assault examination.

Evidence obtained in that examination matched Cabral’s DNA, according to the documents.

The second incident occurred last June at Cabral’s house in the Coleman Highlands neighborhood of Kansas City.

The 19-year-old alleged victim did not initially make a police report because Cabral is a friend of her father, according to the documents.

She later told police that she had several drinks and spent the night with Cabral’s daughter, who was about her age.

The woman said that she woke up, and Cabral was having intercourse with her. She said the next memory she had was waking up the next day.

Cabral was in the Jackson County Detention Center on Friday. Prosecutors requested a bond of $500,000.

Records with the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office lists Cabral LLC as the owner of the restaurant.

Cabral LLC was organized by Arturo Cabral in 1997, according to the state records.

The LLC still is listed as owner of the restaurant in state records, but a spokeswoman for the restaurant said Friday it is no longer owned by Arturo Cabral.

“At this time, we are not at liberty to comment any other aspect of this case, as it has nothing to do with the business operations of El Patron Cocina and Bar,” the business said in a written statement.

This story was originally published January 6, 2017 at 10:50 AM with the headline "Longtime Kansas City restaurant owner is charged with raping two women."