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   From: bksherman@outlook.com   
      
   A California man was charged with the sexual assault of two   
   women over 22 years ago, after police linked DNA from the crime   
   scenes to that of a sample recently collected from a Baskin-   
   Robbins ice cream spoon.   
      
   Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley announced   
   Monday that Gregory Paul Vien, 60, will face “multiple felony   
   sexual assault charges” in connection with the two separate   
   assaults, both from 1997.   
      
   According to prosecutors, a woman walking to a Bay Area Rapid   
   Transit station after work on May 6 was attacked by an   
   unidentified man who “dragged her to a secluded area” before he   
   sexually assaulted her.   
      
   Several months later, on Sept. 7, a second woman was sexually   
   assaulted while on a walk near Livermore High School.   
      
   Police were able to recover DNA from both crime scenes that were   
   “found to be a match to each other.” The samples were uploaded   
   to the national DNA database to no avail.   
      
   Over 22 years later, investigators from the Livermore Police   
   Department were able to get a lead using a genetic genealogical   
   search tool which led them to Vien.   
      
   Detectives began to surveil Vein in August after discovering   
   that he had lived in Livermore for several decades, including   
   around the time the crimes were committed.   
      
   According to a probable cause statement, police subsequently   
   collected “several items” that had been thrown in the garbage,   
   including a “Baskin-Robbins spoon” that Vien used to eat ice   
   cream.   
      
   On Aug. 28, the lab turned back a positive match between Vien’s   
   DNA and the sample taken from both crime scenes.   
      
   “For over 20 years, the survivors of these sexual assaults have   
   lived with the constant uncertainty that comes with not knowing   
   when, if ever, their assailant will be identified and brought to   
   justice,” O’Malley said in a news release.   
      
   “My office’s specialized cold case unit and sexual assault unit   
   worked alongside our law enforcement partners and will now   
   ensure that Mr. Vien is held to account for the crimes he   
   committed.”   
      
   Vien was arraigned on Nov. 7 and is due back in court on   
   Wednesday.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-man-arrested-dna-baskin-   
   robbins   
        
      
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