DNA Evidence Leads To Arrest

Since 2002, Toledo police have been looking for the man or men responsible for four rapes and four attempted rapes in South Toledo.

Monday evening DNA evidence led to arrest. of 31-year-old Na'kia D. Witcher, who is now behind bars at the Lucas County Jail.

Witcher has been charged with rape, kidnapping, and assult.

Police say the Toledo man has been in jail for three months for another attack and that's when law enforcement officials discovered his DNA matched evidence linked to a January 2002 rape of a 26-year-old woman.

Police say they never stopped looking for the suspect, but are very thankful the DNA testing was successful.

Sgt. Greg Smith says his department now do even more testing to see if Witcher is a match to any of the other cases. Sgt. Smith, though, believes Witcher might now have acted alone.

In 2002, NBC24 was the first station to report that police DNA evidence showed there was more than one suspect in the case of the four rapes and four attempted rapes.