DNA Match Leads to Charges in 2000 Baltimore Kidnapping and Rape
Police announced that Michael Harris, currently serving time at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown for an unrelated offense, has been indicted in connection with a 2000 kidnapping and rape in Northeast Baltimore. The breakthrough came after a DNA database search linked him to the crime.
Authorities said the assault occurred twenty-five years ago, when a woman reported being abducted at gunpoint, driven away, and sexually assaulted. Harris, aged 50, now faces new kidnapping and rape charges.
The Baltimore Police Department stated that in June 2000, a man reported that he and his girlfriend were leaving a restaurant on Harford Road when two masked men robbed them. One suspect stole his Acura, while the other forced the woman into a Nissan and left the scene.
The victim was found early that morning near Baltimore City College. She told police the man threatened to kill her if she resisted and then forced her into sexual intercourse before driving away.
Officials said Harris is represented by the Office of the Public Defender, which has not yet commented on the case.
Summary
DNA evidence linked inmate Michael Harris to a 2000 Baltimore kidnapping and rape, leading to new charges in the decades-old cold case.