Nicholas Craney, of Ardmore, OK, was arrested in the 1991 kidnapping and sexual assault of an 8-year-old in Plano, TX.
A man in Oklahoma was arrested Thursday, more than three decades after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child in Plano. Police say there may be more victims.The cold case arrest occurred after years of investigation and collaboration between law enforcement agencies, which led Plano police to identify 64-year-old Nicholas Ray Carney as the suspect in a 1991 abduction and sexual assault of an 8-year-old, according to a Plano police news release.
The incident occurred Aug. 15, 1991. Two children were walking to a neighborhood pool about 6 p.m. in the 1700 block of Lake Hill Lane in Plano when a man — now identified as Carney — drove up to them and asked for help finding his lost dog, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.An officer wrote in the report that Carney said, “You’re coming with me,” grabbed the child then drove off.
The injured child, who was kidnapped, threatened and sexually assaulted, was found five hours later walking up to a home in Garland asking for help, according to the affidavit.Last year, a Plano detective, in partnership with the Texas Rangers, utilized the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative project to gather further leads from evidence collected in 1991.
Earlier this year, a combination of forensic sciences and genetic genealogy research by Bode Technology and a Plano crime analyst connected the evidence to Carney, according to the release.Carney has also been linked to a similar case from March 1999 in Dallas, where he allegedly drove up to two children walking home from school and asked if they saw cats nearby before he abducted and sexually assaulted a 9-year-old, according to the affidavit.
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