A 57-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the 1992 cold case sexual assault of a woman in Commerce City.
The Adams County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Dionicio Ramos-Ascencio was taken into custody on several counts of sexual assault, attempted first-degree murder, assault and burglary.
Ramos-Ascencio is accused in the attack on a woman at her home on the 7200 block of East 60th Avenue on July 26, 1992.
“According to the charging documents, the victim was stabbed in the neck, beaten and sexually assaulted,” the district attorney’s office said in a news release. “The attacker fled.”
Ramos-Ascencio was arrested May 9, authorities say, after DNA collected in a Denver felony case this year matched DNA collected from the victim in 1992.
Ramos-Ascencio was formally advised of the charges against him on Friday in Adams County District Court. A preliminary hearing is set for May 31.
Prosecutors say he is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.