MILGROVE TOWNSHIP, IN (WTVB) – The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office say they have a suspect in custody following an alleged sexual assault which they say took place Thursday morning at a Milgrove Township residence near Lake Pleasant just south of the Branch County border.
The Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that deputies were called at around 4:45 a.m. Thursday morning to Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola on a report of woman in the Emergency Room who may have been sexually assaulted.
Sheriff’s department detectives were later called to the hospital to assist in the investigation. The woman was treated for minor injuries.
After she gave information to detectives, they were able to find the suspect and identified him as 30-year-old Jorge Juarez Lopez of Orland, Indiana.
Following an interview with detectives, Lopez was booked into the Steuben County Jail on charges of Rape with a Deadly Weapon and Fraud.
The incident remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.
They were assisted by police from Orland and Angola, the Indiana State Police and the Indiana Department of Child Services.
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