A 48-year-old man from Brownville, Maine has been charged with aggravated rape and kidnapping in a July, 2000 sexual assault in the Town of Holland.
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni says Jamie Dodge has been arraigned and is being held on 250-thousand-dollars.
According to the D-A, on Sunday, July 23, 2000, just before noon, a sexual assault was reported to Holland police officers. Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to the local barracks and the State Detective Unit assigned to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office immediately responded to the scene on Sand Hill Road in Holland. Also responding were troopers from the Massachusetts State Police’s Airwing and Canine Units, who were actively looking for a suspect.
The victim, an adult female, had been walking on Sand Hill Road when she was grabbed from behind, pulled off the roadway and dragged into the nearby woods. She then was sexually assaulted by an unknown white male.
He says the arrest marks the first time, forensic investigative genetic genealogy has contributed to the arrest of an offender in Hampden County.
Dodge's next court date is scheduled for July 11th.
(Photo Credit: Hampden County D-A Office)