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POSTED: 4:36 pm EDT September 2,
2003
UPDATED: 6:30 pm EDT September 2,
2003
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police in Charlotte say they have arrested a man in connection with a break-in and rape that terrified a south Charlotte neighborhood three years ago.Sources say DNA evidence collected after after an attempted robbery helped police catch the rape suspect.
Stanfield Key made his first court appearance Tuesday afternoon after being arrested in Oklahoma.Key was silent as a judge appointed him a public defender and set a bond hearing for Sept. 10.Police say Key broke into a home in the Thornhill neighborhood in south Charlotte in September of 2000 and raped a young mother as her children slept upstairs.Detectives began looking at Key as a suspect several months after the crimes.They say it wasn't until last week that they had the evidence they needed to make the case.
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