PALO ALTO: MAN ARRESTED FOR 2002 RAPE AND ASSAULT OF 94-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
PALO ALTO (BCN)
Fri, 15 Aug 2008
A 40-year-old man has been extradited to the United States and placed under arrest for the 2002 beating and rape of a 94-year-old woman in a Palo Alto assisted living center, Palo Alto police announced today.
On May 10, 2002, police responded to a senior assisted living center after a resident reported she had been beaten and raped by an intruder, agent Dan Ryan said. Originally a man who lived down the street was arrested for the crime, but further investigation cleared him of the crime.
Evidence allegedly linked the crime to Roberto Cruz Recendes, who was living in Palo Alto at the time of the crime, but had since fled to Mexico, Ryan said. Mexican law enforcement officials detained him and Recendes was extradited to Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Recendes has been charged with one count of sexual assault during the commission of a burglary and one count of elder abuse with great bodily injury, according to Ryan. He is being held in the Santa Clara County main jail without bail.
(© 2007 The Associated Press.)
SOURCE: CBS 5
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