Davie police say they have solved 2010 rape case

Davie police say they’ve used a saliva sample and sophisticated new technology to solve a rape case from 2010.

A 48-year-old woman was jogging at Robbins Lodge park, 4005 Hiatus Road, on the day after Thanksgiving seven years ago, when her assailant pulled her shirt over her head and sexually battered her, said Sgt. Mark Leone, a spokesman for the Davie Police Department.

The rapist left a saliva sample on the victim’s breast but, because he had never been arrested, no DNA matches were made to national databases and the case went cold, Leone said.

But using cutting-edge science, technologists earlier this month were able to use the saliva sample to produce a genetic blueprint, which was used to generate a composite sketch, Leone said.

Davie police canvased the area and identified a worker at Flamingo Gardens who resembled the composite sketch and characteristics of the genetic analysis, Leone said.

The man consented to giving a DNA sample. His identity was not disclosed.

“This evening the DNA came back as 1 in 400 billion that it is NOT the offender of the sexual battery,” Leone said.

The man, who is in the country illegally from Peru, is being detained on an immigration hold, authorities say.

Charges related to the sexual battery are pending.