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New Bedford Man Scheduled to be Arraigned

According to ABC 6 in Providence, a man who was arrested in connection a New Bedford cold case rape is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. The 28-year-old Dylan Ponte was arrested last month after a decade-old rape kit was tested. Ponte was indicted last week on two counts of rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14, and one case of witness intimidation. In 2012, the victim had been drinking with Ponte when she blacked out and woke up outside of her friend's home with multiple bruises on her body. In May, the rape kit connected to this case was tested and matched the DNA of Dylan Ponte from previous arrests. He is also convicted of misdemeanor domestic battery in Florida.

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