DNA links man to sexual assault

Posted: July 7, 2013 at 11:47 am

Posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013 12:43 pm

DNA links man to sexual assault

RACINE (AP) Racine County prosecutors say a DNA sample from a 2012 conviction for mistreating an animal has connected a Racine man to a decade-old sexual-assault case.

A Journal Times of Racine report says 36-year-old Angel L. Cartagena now faces a charge of second-degree sexual assault. Prosecutors say his DNA matched samples taken after a sexual assault in 2002.

A woman told police she was walking home from a friends house at 4:30 a.m. when a man knocked her down, banged her head on concrete and sexually assaulted her.

Prosecutors say Cartagena was linked to the assault after he was ordered to provide a DNA sample following an October conviction of mistreating an animal.

A message left with Cartagenas defense attorney Saturday was not immediately returned.

A preliminary hearing is set for July 10.

Posted in Daily updates on Saturday, July 6, 2013 12:43 pm.

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