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20-05-2025
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Charge: DNA links St. Paul man to 2013 rape at Maplewood motel
A 59-year-old man charged in January with raping a 71-year-old St. Paul woman he met on Facebook is now accused of committing a 2013 sexual assault at a Maplewood motel. Thao Xiong's DNA came back as a match through an initiative to analyze a backlog of untested sexual assault kits, according to a Ramsey County District Court criminal complaint charging him Friday by warrant with felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Xiong remained out of custody on Monday. He was released from jail on March 21 after posting a $50,000 bond in the January case that also charges him with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Xiong allegedly committed that offense while on probation for a 2020 first-degree criminal sexual conduct conviction involving a 41-year-old woman during a night of drinking at his St. Paul apartment in July 2019. According to the Friday's criminal complaint: A woman reported to police on July 15, 2013, that she had just been forcibly sexually assaulted at a motel off U.S. 61 in Maplewood by a man she knew as 'Chue Lee,' identified in November 2020 through a DNA match as Xiong. The woman said she had been talking with 'Chue' for two days over the phone, that she did not know him previously and had assumed he got her number from someone she knew. She said he called her on July 15 and said he was coming to Minnesota from Wisconsin and wanted her to show him around. They also planned to go for a walk by a lake. She met Xiong in the parking lot of a St. Paul grocery store, where he suggested they take one car and offered to drive. She agreed and got into his car. He drove past the lake, telling her they were going to get something to eat first. Rather than going to a restaurant, he brought her to the motel, saying he wanted to get some rest before eating. Xiong rented the room and once inside began 'ripping her clothes apart,' the complaint says. She said he 'overpowered' her and raped her. She went to a hospital for a sexual assault examination the same day. A nurse examiner noted bruising to the woman's body and she complained about areas where she said Xiong had bitten her. She told the nurse the assault began immediately after they got into the motel room and Xiong locked the door. After the assault, she said, Xiong appeared scared, so she got in his car. Xiong dropped her off and about 15 minutes later he called her and left a 'cruel message,' which she later provided to police. The complaint says motel video shows Xiong arriving with the woman in a gray Toyota Prius just after 5 p.m. He went into the motel office and then moved the car in front of a room. The two entered the room at 5:15 p.m. and left 45 minutes later. An investigator in late July 2020 discovered the sexual assault kit, which had not been tested. It was brought to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and four months later an unidentified male DNA profile taken from swabs of the woman was entered into the state's DNA databases and the National DNA Index System. The BCA notified St. Paul police on Nov. 4, 2020, that Xiong's DNA, obtained from his 2019 sexual assault case, matched the DNA in the 2013 assault. Police tried to contact the woman but were unsuccessful, the complaint says. Last March, police were told DNA collected from Xiong in the January case matched the DNA found on the swabs taken from the 2013 victim, the complaint says. Police tried to locate the woman and reached her on April 10 after her son called to ask why they were trying to contact his mother who does not speak English, the complaint says. She told police through an interpreter she 'had been waiting for a very long time for an update on her case and wants him prosecuted for sexually assaulting her,' the complaint says. Police sent the case to the attorney's office for charging consideration last month. Kate Courtney, Xiong's attorney in the January case, said Monday she could not comment on Friday's charge because she has been out of town and has not read the complaint. According to January's complaint, St. Paul police were dispatched to the 71-year-old woman's apartment in the Summit-University neighborhood about 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 after she reported she had just been forcefully sexually assaulted by a man, who was later identified as Xiong. She told police someone must have given Xiong her phone number because he called, asking to meet. She agreed, and invited him over. When he entered the apartment, she told police, he pushed her into her bedroom, took off her clothes and raped her. 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He was sentenced to 231 days in jail, which was time that he had already served after his arrest, and put on supervised probation for 10 years. Xiong has no other convictions, besides two petty misdemeanor traffic violations.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
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St. Paul man charged with sexually assaulting 71-year-old woman he befriended on Facebook
A 59-year-old man on probation for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman in 2019 is accused of raping a 71-year-old St. Paul woman who told police she had never met him before he befriended her on Facebook and asked to come over, according to a criminal complaint. Police arrested Thao Xiong on Tuesday after they obtained a search warrant for his apartment in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood and found him hiding under his bed, the complaint says. Xiong was charged Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court with first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He went before a judge on Thursday and was granted a public defender, although one was not listed in the court file to comment on the charge. Xiong remained jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail, and is due back in court Feb. 20. According to the complaint, police were dispatched to the woman's apartment in the Summit-University neighborhood about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after she reported she had just been forcefully sexually assaulted by a man, who was later identified as Xiong. She told police someone must have given Xiong her phone number because he called, asking to meet. She agreed, and invited him over. When he entered the apartment, she told police, he pushed her into her bedroom, took off her clothes and raped her. She said he was too strong and that she could not get him off of her during the assault, which lasted 10 to 20 minutes. Xiong then left the apartment, although she was able to get a photograph of him, which she gave to police. She said he left in a black Jeep and gave police his license plate information. The woman also gave police a Facebook profile that Xiong used to contact her. As an officer pulled up the profile, the woman immediately said, 'that's him,' the complaint states. The woman was taken to the hospital where she underwent a sexual assault examination. During the exam, she said Xiong had befriended her on Facebook on Monday, the day before the alleged assault. She said he called her out of the blue about 3 p.m. Tuesday, but she didn't answer. He kept calling, then texted and 'yelled at her' for not answering, the complaint states. She then answered, and told Xiong that if he was going to come over, he could not touch her, according to the complaint. She said he agreed. Once Xiong arrived and entered her apartment, he immediately took her to the bedroom, removed her clothes and had 'rough sex with her,' she said, according to the complaint. Xiong called the woman multiple times during the sexual assault exam, but she did not answer. She told the nurse examiner that she was 'really scared' that Xiong would come back to her apartment and harm her if he was arrested and released, the complaint says. Medical records show the woman was injured during the assault, and forensic samples were collected for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to analyze. After his arrest, Xiong underwent a suspect sexual assault examination. While waiting to be booked into jail, he 'spontaneously' said this was the second person who accused him of rape, the complaint says. Xiong was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ramsey County in July 2019. Witnesses told police that a group of acquaintances had been drinking at Xiong's apartment and that a 41-year-old woman became drunk and ended up in his bed, the criminal complaint says. A witness later looked in the bedroom and saw Xiong on top of the woman, who was naked from the waist down. She 'finally escaped' to a different apartment, while still partially naked, the complaint says. She had scratches and bruises on her inner thighs, neck, shoulder, legs and arms. Crime & Public Safety | Austin Sarat: It's now clear that America's death penalty is dying one generation at a time Crime & Public Safety | Shooter gets life in prison in 2022 killing of Casanova Carter on St. Paul's West Side Crime & Public Safety | Maplewood store owner sentenced for sexually assaulting child Crime & Public Safety | Operation Cold Front leads to 4 arrests for selling fentanyl in downtown St. Paul Crime & Public Safety | Venezuelan gang members indicted in sprawling gun trafficking ring in NYC In an interview with police, Xiong 'tried to downplay' the woman's level of intoxication. However, a witness told police they helped Xiong clean up the woman's vomit in Xiong's bedroom. Xiong had a bite mark on his neck and scratches on his back and arms, all which police said were consistent with the woman trying to fight him off of her, the complaint says. Court records show that Xiong reached a plea deal with prosecutors and admitted to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in exchange for the more serious charge being dismissed. In November 2020, he was sentenced to 231 days in jail, which was time that he had already served after his arrest, and put on supervised probation for 10 years. Xiong has no other convictions, besides two petty misdemeanor traffic violations.
