Arlington Man Arrested for 1993 Sexual Assault

Arlington County police have arrested a 43-year-old man in the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl nearly 15 years ago after re-submitting genetic evidence from the crime scene to a national DNA database, police said today.

After getting a match, police said they arrested Benjamin Ramirez-Segovia, of Petersburg, Va., at his workplace in Prince George County on Sunday. Prince George County police and the Dinwiddie County Sheriff's Department took part in the arrest, Arlington police said.

Ramirez-Segovia is charged with abduction with intent to defile. He is being held without bond at the Arlington jail, and additional charges are pending, police said.

On Nov. 10, 1993, a 9-year-old Arlington girl was walking home from school in the 2800 block of South Glebe Road when she was grabbed, forced underneath a bridge adjacent to Four Mile Run and sexually assaulted, police said. The victim ran home and reported the attack to her mother, who called police.

Although a composite sketch was completed and released at the time, no suspect was identified, police said.

On Jan. 31 of this year, the evidence was re-submitted to the Northern Virginia Forensic Laboratory for DNA analysis, police said. In late February, Arlington's Special Victims Unit was notified that the evidence had yielded a hit in the national DNA database.

Special Victim's Unit detectives then obtained a warrant for Ramirez-Segovia, police said, arresting him on March 2.

Police said Ramirez-Segovia lived in Arlington at the time of the attack.