Derrick Raheem Swann, 18 (R) was arrested yesterday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on several warrants related to two unsolved violent rapes that occurred in Charlotte. The charges include several counts of first degree rape, first degree sexual assault, first and second degree kidnapping, breaking and entering with force, robbery with a dangerous weapon and assault on a child under 12.Police say DNA evidence linked Swann to the October 2005 rape of a woman in her home on Rama Road near Monroe Road. Police say Swann sexually assaulted a 68 year old woman in front of her 97 year old mother.
Police say he also broke into a woman’s apartment on Farm Pond Lane earlier this month. He assaulted a woman in front of her 4 year old daughter and infant son.
Swann is no stranger to law enforcement. He may only be 18, but his arrest yesterday was the 8th time he was arrested by CMPD since November of 2005. During one of his trips to jail, police collected his DNA and entered it into the system. MATCH: 2 hits
Swann was out of jail on bond for other charges when police arrested him. They were able to quickly locate him because a judge had ordered him to wear a GPS tracking system after his most recent burglary arrest. He is now being held in the Mecklenburg County jail on a $900,000 bond.
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