Oct 17, 2007 10:50 am US/Eastern
Duct Tape Rapist Convicted
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) ―
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A jury found Pov Srun, 36, guilty on 20 criminal charges. (File)
A man who used duct tape to obscure his face while committing sexual assaults was convicted of kidnapping two women from store parking lots and raping them.
Pov Srun, 36, of Hagerstown was found guilty Tuesday by a Franklin County jury on 20 charges related to the attacks in 2004.
Srun was already serving up to 35 years in prison for similar crimes in Maryland when he was tried on the Pennsylvania charges.
Police said Srun forced his way into the Jeep of a 16-year-old Smithsburg girl in a Kmart parking lot in Waynesboro on Sept. 16, 2004, drove her to a different site and assaulted her. Twelve days later, the same thing happened to a 20 year-old woman who was abducted from a supermarket parking lot in Chambersburg, police said.
In those attacks and two almost identical assaults in Maryland in 2005, police said Srun used duct tape or a ski mask to obscure his face. In three of the cases, he took pictures of the victims and left behind $200 to $300, police said.
Srun was arrested after a February 2005 assault in Rockville, Md., in which a bystander got his license plate number, police said. He pleaded guilty to the two Maryland attacks.
Authorities said DNA from a hat band and rape kit in the Pennsylvania cases matched samples from one of the Maryland assaults and a DNA sample taken from Srun.
Also, Pennsylvania prosecutors said that when Srun's vehicle was searched, police found a digital camera, rolls of duct tape and an envelope with the name and address of one of the Maryland victims.
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