Oct. 23--Arlington Heights police are praising the Cook County Sheriff's Office for a routine traffic stop that led them to a Mount Prospect man now charged in the 2014 sexual assault of a 68-year-old woman.
"This was the result of some really good work from a lot of people, and we'd just like to say, 'kudos to the Cook County sheriff's deputy who made the traffic arrest," Arlington Heights Police Cmdr. Nathan Hayes said.
Reynaldo Pineda, 35, was arrested by Cook County sheriff's police Sunday in the 1700 block of Dempster Street for driving without a valid license, operating a motor vehicle without insurance and for driving a vehicle without a registration plate light, Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said.
After the arrest, Pineda's fingerprints were collected by Cook County police and entered into the national database for comparison, she said.
Hayes said that, just three days after the arrest, investigators in Arlington Heights were notified that Pineda's fingerprints matched unidentified fingerprints from a September 2014 investigation.
Pineda since has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and home invasion in connection with the September 2014 incident in the 2400 block of south Embers Lane in Arlington Heights, police said.
While fingerprint evidence collected at the time of the sexual assault did not come up with a match in the national database, Hayes said the fingerprints were stored in the system for future comparison.
Arlington Heights detectives located Pineda at his home in Mount Prospect on Wednesday , where he was taken into custody and interviewed before the charges were approved by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
A Cook County judge on Friday set Pineda's bond at $2 million, Ansari said.
Pineda's next court date is scheduled for Nov. 12 at the Cook County Third Municipal District Courthouse in Rolling Meadows.
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