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Man Wanted for 2004 Rape in Kearney Arrested

Steven Rita
Steven Rita

(AP) — A man wanted for a 2004 sexual assault is in custody in Buffalo County after being arrested on a Nebraska warrant.

42-year-old Steven Rita was originally charged in March 2005 with felony first-degree sexual assault of a woman in November 2004 in Kearney.

Rita was arrested last week on the warrant after being released from a Kansas prison, where he had been since December 2011. Authorities do not know where Rita was between 2004 and 2010.

There is no statute of limitations on felony first-degree sexual assault.

Rita is being held at the Buffalo County Jail on $25,000 bond.

He is scheduled to appear in court later this month.

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