SALEM, Ore.
A DNA match with a man from Salem led detectives on Monday to the man who sexually assaulted a woman in 2005, deputies said.
David Frank Lane, 39, was arrested on sex abuse charges after his DNA was matched to a 2005 sexual assault when evidence was run through a periodic check, Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller said.
In April 2005, a woman answered a knock at her door to find a man who claimed to be an employee of her satellite TV service provider, Mueller said. Once he got inside, the man hit the victim in the head and threatened her with a gun before he sexually assaulted her.
DNA evidence was recovered from the scene and submitted to the Oregon State Police Forensic Laboratory but it didn't match anything in the files, Mueller said.
The DNA profile was periodically checked through state and national databases and during one of those checks in June it matched with Lane, Mueller said.
Lane had been entered into the database after a September 2008 conviction for encouraging child sexual abuse. He was arrested Monday when he went to meet with his probation officer at the Marion County Sheriff's Office on charges of unlawful sexual penetration, sexual abuse, attempted sodomy, burglary and menacing.
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