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Suspect arrested in 2014 rape
Vidalia man charged in Somerset Apartments assault
POWELL
Michael Teddy Powell
Statesboro police arrested a Vidalia man Wednesday after DNA evidence linked him to a rape reported in October, 2014 at Somerset Apartments. Michael Teddy Powell, 58, West Sixth Street, Vidalia, faced charges of sexual assault in the past, but was found not guilty in 1998 after a two-day trial, according to reports by the Carolina Morning News. Now he is charged with rape, aggravated sodomy and burglary stemming from the Somerset Apartments incident, said Statesboro Public Safety Director Wendell Turner.
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