Wednesday, January 12, 2011

SYLVESTER GENE RAWLS: Long Beach Ex-Con Charged with Attacking Student at Redondo Union High School in 2003, thanks to a DNA Match

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That darn DNA.  Another bad guy bagged.
By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
TORRANCE, CA
4:23 p.m.

That darn DNA.  Yep the pesky microbe has helped bag another creepy guy here in the South Bay.

In a stunning development, a 45-year-old ex-con was charged today with the 2003 sexual assault of a 17-year-old Redondo Beach girl at knife point thanks to a positive DNA test.

Today, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced that Sylvester Gene Rawls, (dob 3-1-65) was arraigned in  Torrance Superior Court, Department  and charged with two felony counts of "forcible oral copulation" with the special allegation that he used a deadly weapon (a knife) during his crime.

Deputy District Attorney Christi Frey is prosecuting the case.

Rawls allegedly attacked a female student in a campus bathroom at Redondo Union High School on Aug. 28, 2003.

Authorities were able to collect a DNA sample at the time of the attack. In December, a DNA hit came back allegedly identifying Rawls, who gave a DNA sample following a federal conviction of conspiracy to manufacture PCP, police said.

If convicted, the Long Beach resident is facing up to life in prison. He’s being held on $2 million bail.
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Anonymous said...

Is there an update on this story?