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Sunday's Child - Nikolas
Authorities: Colo Soldier's DNA Matches Texas Case 1/17/13
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An Army officer facing child sexual assault
charges in Colorado and Alabama is also a suspect in Texas.
Sgt. Steve Shelley of the Texarkana, Texas, police said Wednesday that DNA
from 1st Lt. Aaron Gregory Lucas matched DNA in a 2009 kidnapping and indecency
case there.
Shelley says his department will seek an arrest warrant for Lucas.
The 31-year-old Lucas is an artillery officer assigned to Fort Carson, just
outside Colorado Springs. He is being held without bail on suspicion of sexual
assault, kidnapping, enticement and indecent exposure in communities surrounding
Fort Carson.
He also faces charges of child enticement and sexual abuse of a child
younger than 12 in Madison, Ala.
In the Texas case, a 7-year-old girl was abducted from a playground and
returned about 30 minutes later.