Category Archive for : ‘RAPE KIT’

July 27, 2020
Lucas Geisler
ABC 17 News

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Holts Summit man admitted to several sex crimes on Monday that took place over several years.

Anthony Rowell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count each of rape and second-degree sodomy. The crimes happened in 2017 and 2018 during three different incidents throughout Boone County.

Judge Brouck Jacobs sentenced Rowell to seven years on each of the four counts. Two of the four will run consecutively to two others, amounting to a 21-year prison sentence. Rowell will be under lifetime

March 8, 2020
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

A plastic surgeon primarily based in Ohio was arrested Friday by the FBI for allegedly drugging multiple women to the point of unconsciousness and raping them on camera.
Dr. Manish Gupta, 49, is charged with illegally dispensing controlled substances, aggravated sexual abuse and sex trafficking, Toledo’s WTVG reported. He was booked into Lucas County Corrections Center in Toledo Friday afternoon after a federal search warrant on his phone, residence, personal vehicle and two offices in Lucas County uncovered sex toys, camera equipment, SD cards and vials of

December 10, 2019
Chris Miller
WWL Radio

A Lacombe man faces second degree murder and sexual abuse of animals charges following the death of a woman in October. Deputies arrested John Jacob Jenkins this morning.
“Shortly before noon on Oct. 7, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call in reference to a medical emergency at a residence on Lake Road in Lacombe,” the sheriff’s department said. “Emergency Medical personnel also responded to the residence and attempted to revive an unresponsive white female, later identified as Jennifer DeBlonde Jacob, but were unsuccessful.”
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November 3, 2019
David Aaro
Fox News

A Florida man was charged with raping a woman and later admitted to killing a man and woman in Mexico, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Omar Navis Torres, 39, who the victim says has a “crack and alcohol addiction,” allegedly beat the unnamed woman before sexually assaulting her.
Officers responded to a location in Manatee County on Oct. 30, in reference to a past physical dispute, when they made contact with Torres and the victim.
Torres allegedly threw the woman onto the bed, hitting her in the

October 27, 2019
Robert Gearty
Fox News
  

Testing in Florida’s Palm Beach County of 1,500 backlogged rape kits has led to the arrest of a registered sex offender for a 1992 rape.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Noel Bango, 57, was arrested Oct. 19 in Deptford Township, N.J., a Philadelphia suburb, on a warrant accusing him of the rape, according to reports.

The accuser was 17 when she reported being raped in a random attack in Delray Beach 27 years ago, the Palm Beach Post reported.

The woman’s rape kit was part of a backlog of 1,500 rape kits in Palm Beach County.

October 15, 2019
Isabel Hughes
USA TODAY

WILMINGTON, Del. – In the early morning hours of Aug. 4, 1993, a young woman was walking near Hill Park in Newark when a nude man grabbed her from behind.

Pushing her onto a grassy area, the man raped her, then fled with her clothes and other personal items.

The 22-year-old, who never saw her attacker, immediately reported the rape to Newark police, who were unsuccessful in locating the man.

Despite receiving tips and interviewing witnesses in the days and weeks that followed, Newark detectives exhausted all