No match to DNA profile in sexual assault case

Leon County Sheriff’s Department personnel continue to investigate several sexual assaults committed in late July.

A suspect in the burglary of a habitation in Marquez was taken into custody and his DNA was submitted for testing in the case of a sexual assault on a 77- year-old Marquez woman on July 21. That individual has been released from the Leon County Jail because the results of the DNA profile did not match the suspect, according to Deputy Victor Smith.

Another disturbing incident occurred on July 19 when a Normangee woman was attacked while working in her yard. Deputy Smith reported that there is currently a registered sex offender in custody at the Madison County jail who has been arrested for failure to comply with sex offender requirements. Smith made it clear that the individual has not been arrested for the Normangee attack but is considered a “person of interest” in that case.

Anyone with information related to these assaults is urged to contact the Leon County Sheriff’s Department.