Rape suspect returned to Butler County

InfoSource: Associated Press

HAMILTON, Ohio -- A Mexican man has been returned to face charges that he kidnapped and raped a 9-year-old girl in 2005, in a case that sparked unrest in a Hamilton neighborhood.

Alfredo Lopez Cruz is being held without bond in Butler County. No attorney is listed for him.

Lopez Cruz disappeared soon after the girl told family members she had been assaulted. The home where he was believed to have been staying was vandalized and set on fire.

Federal officials said in March he had been taken into custody in Mexico after a joint effort by Mexican and U.S. authorities to find him, and that extradition proceedings would begin.

The 31-year-old man is charged with four counts of rape and one count of kidnapping.