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12-04-2007, 11:55 AM
South Afrocoon serial rapist being sought by FeeBees (http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-fbiwarrant.d4,0,1699303.story?coll=sns-newsnation-headlines)
FBI tries to help local police find serial rape suspect
DNA evidence links several attacks; suspect is believed to be in South Africa
VIRGINIA BEACH - The FBI has joined in the hunt for a man suspected of being a serial rapist in Virginia Beach.
Lesiba Simon Matsoake, 33, is wanted in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks as a suspect in a series of sexual attacks. The most recent warrants for his arrest in Virginia Beach were filed in September, charging him with forcible sodomy, sexual assault and abduction.
Last week, the FBI issued a fugitive warrant for Matsoake.
According to the affidavit submitted by FBI special agent K.A. Wright, Matsoake is suspected in a 2003 rape in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., and two sexual assaults and an abduction in Virginia Beach between Feb. 2004 and Dec. 2006. The crimes are all linked by DNA evidence, and Wright said that Matsoake's wife told police in Kill Devil Hills that her husband had "told her in detail about two rapes he had committed in Kill Devil Hills and elsewhere in North Carolina."
Wright said that Matosake's wife had informed police that her husband had fled the country for South Africa, where he lived before moving to the United States. She said she had told her husband that he was wanted by police because she did not want him to come back, and she said he had contacted her "several times by telephone" from South Africa.
Phil Mann, chief division counsel for the FBI's Norfolk office, said the warrant was a way for the bureau to help local officials bring Matsoake in.
"This is where the FBI files a warrant to assist in trying to capture somebody who has committed a local felony," Mann said. "His crime is non-federal, but if it's a serious offense, as this is, we can issue a federal warrant based on a belief that he may have crossed state lines."
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DNA links man to five unsolved rapes (http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_120307_serial_rapist_suspect.657cdb22.h tml)
FBI tries to help local police find serial rape suspect
DNA evidence links several attacks; suspect is believed to be in South Africa
VIRGINIA BEACH - The FBI has joined in the hunt for a man suspected of being a serial rapist in Virginia Beach.
Lesiba Simon Matsoake, 33, is wanted in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks as a suspect in a series of sexual attacks. The most recent warrants for his arrest in Virginia Beach were filed in September, charging him with forcible sodomy, sexual assault and abduction.
Last week, the FBI issued a fugitive warrant for Matsoake.
According to the affidavit submitted by FBI special agent K.A. Wright, Matsoake is suspected in a 2003 rape in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., and two sexual assaults and an abduction in Virginia Beach between Feb. 2004 and Dec. 2006. The crimes are all linked by DNA evidence, and Wright said that Matsoake's wife told police in Kill Devil Hills that her husband had "told her in detail about two rapes he had committed in Kill Devil Hills and elsewhere in North Carolina."
Wright said that Matosake's wife had informed police that her husband had fled the country for South Africa, where he lived before moving to the United States. She said she had told her husband that he was wanted by police because she did not want him to come back, and she said he had contacted her "several times by telephone" from South Africa.
Phil Mann, chief division counsel for the FBI's Norfolk office, said the warrant was a way for the bureau to help local officials bring Matsoake in.
"This is where the FBI files a warrant to assist in trying to capture somebody who has committed a local felony," Mann said. "His crime is non-federal, but if it's a serious offense, as this is, we can issue a federal warrant based on a belief that he may have crossed state lines."
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DNA links man to five unsolved rapes (http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_120307_serial_rapist_suspect.657cdb22.h tml)