Associated Press
CHANDLER, Arizona -- A suspect in the sexual assaults of several young girls in Chandler has been arrested and police said Saturday that DNA positively links the man to the case.
Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in Phoenix on 25 counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and trespassing in connection with the assaults that began in June 2006, police announced at a news conference. They said the most recent attack linked to the case occurred June 8 on a 14-year-old girl.
Police had been searching for months for a man who raped four girls and attempted to assault two others in the Chandler area.
All of the victims have been girls between the ages of 12 and 15, according to authorities.
Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said Aceves is an illegal immigrant who was deported twice for drug charges in California in 1999 and 2003.
Posted by tyne at January 14, 2008