1998 Sexual Assault Case Solved

The CMPD Sexual Assault Cold Case detectives identified and charged 36-year old Darrell Boyd (R) with two brutal sexual assaults committed in 1998:

May 1, 1998: Vinca Circle @ 9:30 am: 22 year-old victim was home alone in her apartment. The suspect entered the apartment through the front door armed with a handgun. He held the victim and sexually assaulted her for more than an hour before fleeing.

May 14, 1998: English Hills Drive @ 11:00 pm. The victim was home alone in her apartment. The suspect entered her residence through a sliding glass door. He held the victim in her residence for nearly three hours, physically and sexually assaulting her, before fleeing.

Police say Boyd was scheduled to be released December 13th from a correctional facility in Ohio where he had been serving two years for a crime he committed there. Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Deputies traveled to the facility over the weekend and transported Boyd back to Charlotte and booked him into the Mecklenburg County Jail.

In addition to an unrelated charge for Trafficking Heroin, Darrell Boyd has been charged with the following crimes: 4 counts 1st degree Rape; 2 counts 2nd degree Rape; 4 counts 1st degree Sex Offense; 3 counts 2nd degree Sex Offense; 2 counts 1st degree Kidnapping; 1 count Robbery; 1 count 1st degree Burglary; 1 count Felony B&E

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