A South Connellsville man has been charged with a rape that occurred nearly eight years ago.
Christopher Lee Vance, 27, of Second Street, was charged recently with rape, selling or furnishing liquor to a minor and involuntary sexual intercourse.
Connellsville police filed the charges with District Judge Jesse Cramer.
Vance will have a preliminary hearing on May 30.
Vance is incarcerated at SCI Rockview.
Police allege on Oct. 19, 2000, Vance, then 20, along with two other men, allegedly picked up a then 14-year-old girl and drove her to a residence and assaulted her.
Her mother took her to Highlands Hospital after the incident where an exam was completed and various samples collected.
The samples were sent to the state police crime lab for analysis, but the seminal fluids that were found did not match any DNA profile and was then submitted to the FBI's CODIS system, a database that stores criminal DNA information.
In January 2007, the Connellsville Police Department received a CODIS hit that the seminal fluid's DNA matched Vance.
On Sept. 26, 2007, the police served a search warrant on Vance for DNA samples. These samples matched the sperm fraction from the rape kit from the victim.
Nicholson
Motorcyclist seriously
injured in crash
A Greene County man was in serious condition Tuesday at a West Virginia hospital after a motorcycle crash.
Brenton S. Bowser, 36, of New Freeport, lost control of his motorcycle and struck a tree along New Geneva Road in Nicholson about 5:20 p.m. Monday, state police at Uniontown reported.
Bowser was transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown with moderate injuries, police said.
He was wearing a helmet.
Uniontown
Keisterville man
guilty in store holdup
A Fayette County jury took less than an hour to find a Keisterville man guilty in a Valentine's Day holdup of a South Union convenience store.
Jurors on Tuesday found Junior Guthrie, 21, guilty of robbery, simple assault, theft by unlawful taking and recklessly endangering another person in the Feb. 14, 2006, holdup that netted $189.
Guthrie on Monday testified he did not commit the robbery at the Kwik Fill on Duck Hollow Road, near Route 40.
Sally Simmons, a clerk at the store, testified that one of two masked men who robbed her that night pointed a shotgun at her and demanded cash. Simmons could not identify either man, but two state police troopers testified Guthrie told them he was responsible for the robbery.
He faces sentencing Friday before Judge John F. Wagner Jr.
Guthrie already is serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a string of robberies at other Fayette convenience stores.
