The case against a man accused of sexually assaulting an employee at a Bowling Green hotel has been sent to a grand jury.

Warren District Judge Kim Geoghegan found probable cause to send the case against Johnson Dukuly Lloyd to a grand jury after hearing testimony during a preliminary hearing Friday.

Lloyd, 25, no address, was arrested Dec. 2 by the Bowling Green Police Department on charges of first-degree rape, fourth-degree assault and second-degree fleeing or evading police.

BGPD Detective Matthew Poore testified Friday that police were called at 1:24 a.m., Dec. 2, to Wingate by Wyndham, 185 Greenwood Lane, regarding the alleged incident.

Officers spoke with an employee who reported that a man entered the front lobby of the hotel and attempted to sleep on the couch before being asked on multiple occasions to leave the business.

The man, who police later identified as Lloyd, left and returned to the hotel multiple times over the course of the night.

“He actually jumped on the counter of the reception desk where (the employee) was working,” Poore said. “She tried to leave through the door to the lobby, and he jumped back down and attacked her.”

Poore said that the employee reported being punched twice and digitally penetrated by the man, and a sexual assault kit was collected.

The man was described by the employee as wearing a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and slip-on shoes.

Police were later contacted at 3:48 a.m. by a homeowner on Greenwood Lane who reported that a man tried to enter their house.

Officers found Lloyd minutes later near Greenwood Nursing and Rehab dressed in pants and shoes that matched what the hotel employee described, though he was not wearing a sweatshirt.

Lloyd was arrested after attempting to run from officers, Poore said.

A witness who had seen the man in the hotel lobby earlier in the night identified Lloyd as the suspect and surveillance footage from the hotel showed a person matching Lloyd’s physical description, Poore said.

“Lloyd made a brief statement that he had been dropped off in Bowling Green by another police department to get on the Greyhound bus,” Poore said. “He denied he was in the area (of the hotel).”

Poore later interviewed Lloyd at Warren County Regional Jail, and Lloyd again denied being at the hotel, the detective said, adding that additional charges may be forthcoming.

Geoghegan increased Lloyd’s bond Friday from $50,000 to $100,000, court records show.