A man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday after a new law helped detectives in Tyler connect him to a 2019 sexual assault in Arlington.
Jessie DeWayne Ray, 26, was handed the sentence on Nov. 9, 2022 after he pleaded guilty to an aggravated sexual assault charge.Ray is the first person convicted under Molly Jane's Law, which requires law enforcement agencies investigating sexual assaults to add information to an FBI database in order to help investigators find similarities in cases and prevent offenders from attacking again.sexually assaulting a woman on Sept.
. The victim told police that her assailant approached her from behind at gunpoint and recorded the attack on his iPhone. A few months later, in May 2020, Ray was arrested in Tyler during a drug investigation. Police searched his iPhone and found a video of a sexual assault. Detectives added the details of the assault into the FBI database, which indicated that the video was a recording of the Arlington attack.
Ray was given a life sentence for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in Tyler before being transferred to Tarrant County. He will now go to Oklahoma City, where he faces charges in connection with another sexual assault linked to him after his arrest.
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