A man was arrested in the Lower 48 and charged for the alleged sexual abuse of a five-year-old child in an Anchorage park in 1994.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man was arrested in the Lower 48 and charged for the alleged sexual abuse of a 5-year-old child in an Anchorage park in 1994.
According to a release from the Department of Law, 52-year-old Lawrence Lekanoff was indicted by an Anchorage grand jury on Feb. 23 and arrested on Feb. 27. The release states that Lekanoff faces extradition to Alaska, and that Anchorage police investigated the 1994 incident but could not identify a suspect and the case went cold.
“The sexual assault kit collected in the case was tested in 2020 as part of the Capital Project, a State initiative to analyze untested sexual assault kits collected by 47 police departments statewide,” the release said. “When the sexual assault kit collected in this case was tested, DNA evidence linked to a potential suspect was identified. The Anchorage Police Department reopened the investigation, and the Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions presented the case to the grand jury.
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