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District resident Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 37, who also calls Prince George's County home in Maryland, was arraigned on a 2014 cold case involving a sexual assault involving a stranger at a DC Metro station in 2014.
According to court documents, on July 6, 2014, Spriggs approached a stranger near the Minnesota Avenue Metro station at approximately 1 a.m., following her before physically and sexually assaulting her in an alley.
Once the assault was over, the woman immediately called the police and a sexual assault exam was conducted.
At the time, the DNA was tested in the national database, but there were no hits.
Prosecutors say that two years later, the database reported a match between that DNA profile and a separate sexual offense that was reported in Maryland in 2013.
Earlier this year, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Cold Case Sexual Assault Unit identified Spriggs as a suspect, and his DNA was again tested and came up as a match for both the DC and Anne Arundel County incidents.
Earlier this week, a grand jury indicted Spriggs in the DC cold case on multiple counts of first-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse. He is also currently charged in a separate criminal complaint in Anne Arundel County for unrelated offenses in Maryland.
If convicted, Spriggs faces up to 30 years in prison and a $125,000 fine, followed by at least five years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
He is set to go to trial on Thursday, Oct. 12.
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