STAFFORD, Va. — Detectives in Stafford County placed charges on a Chicago man tied to a rape reported more than 10 years ago.
On Nov. 12, 2000, Stafford deputies were called to the Garrison Woods neighborhood off Onville Road in North Stafford for a report of a woman who was raped at gunpoint. Authorities shortly thereafter launched an investigation into the crime but were unable to bring charges, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Fast forward to April 2012 when two Stafford County detectives received word from a forensic lab in Northern Virginia that DNA collected following a felony crime in Chicago a short time after the rape in Stafford matched evidence gathered at the rape scene. Detectives then researched their suspect and found that he lived in Chicago, and also learned he once served at Quantico Marine Corps Base, said Kennedy.
In November, detectives sent felony warrants for the arrest of 35-year-old Troy Lee Anderson, who was arrested by Chicago police on Feb. 20, 2013. On March 3, the two Stafford detectives heading up the investigation went to Chicago to get their man and to bring him back to Stafford County.
Anderson is charged with rape and with use of a firearm in commission of a felony, said Kennedy. He’s being held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
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