LAPD officer arrested on multiple sexual assault charges after DNA from one case allegedly linked him to a different cold case from 2015, authorities say.
A veteran Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested on multiple sexual assault charges after DNA from one case allegedly linked him to a different cold case from 2015, authorities said Wednesday.
Prosecutors said evidence linked Rodriguez, a 10-year veteran of the police force, to a sexual assault involving an acquaintance of his who claimed she was assaulted at his home in November 2018. "The investigation into the latter case uncovered a second, unsolved sexual assault from 2015 when the defendant’s DNA was entered into the state’s DNA database prompting a 'cold hit' notification," the DA's office said in a statement Wednesday."That assault involved another female victim who allegedly was raped under similar circumstances."
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