Residents of a downtown Los Angeles building were stunned to learn their longtime handyman was actually a child-rape suspect who had faked his own death 15 years ago in Washington.
ABC7.com staffA Seattle-area child-rape suspect who faked his own death in 2009 was quietly living under a fake name in Los Angeles for more than a decade.Residents of a downtown Los Angeles building were sad when they learned their longtime maintenance man, a 56-year-old resident of the building they knew as Mark Clemens, had died.
The department says Basham was arrested in 2008 and charged with second-degree child rape. He was released after posting $350,000 bail. Mark Clemens was already the Los Angeles building's handyman when Cuellar moved in about a decade ago.
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