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Man, who assaulted pensioner in Penza village 15 years ago, arrested

17:15 | 13.09.2016 | Crime

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Penza, 13 September 2016. PenzaNews. 39-year-old man who, according to investigators, assaulted an elderly resident of the Penza region 15 years ago was arrested in the Rostov region.

Man, who assaulted pensioner in Penza village 15 years ago, arrested

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“According to investigators, on the night of August 18, 2001 the suspect, having knocked out the front door, broke into the house in the village of Lachinovka of Kolyshleysky area, where an elderly woman born in 1925 lived. While in the house, the intruder, threatening the pensioner with a metal bar, demanded to give him money and raped the victim. He then fled the scene and left the Penza region,” Lyudmila Fomina, senior assistant of the head of the regional Investigative Committee for media relations, told PenzaNews.

She explained that the suspect was declared in a federal wanted list.

“Currently the investigation is underway to establish all the circumstances of the crime committed,” the agency interlocutor added.

Lyudmila Fomina said that a criminal case was instituted against the suspect under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — Art. 131 "Raping" and Art. 132 "Violent acts of a sexual nature.”

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