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Alleged Chandler rapist caught
“Good old-fashioned police work” is also registered. He told investigators that he scenes.
credited with potentially solving a year- didn’t know the Chandler area well and had “We are convinced the suspect, now identifi ed as
old series of sexual assaults in Chandler, never lived in Chandler, but police say he fi t Santana Batiz Aceves … is responsible for multiple assaults
according to Chandler Police Chief Sherry the physical description of the serial rapist in our community,” says Kiyler. “He has currently been
Kiyler. That and help from the community, and a jacket observed in his vehicle matched charged with 25 felony counts, for offenses including
who provided more than 2000 leads during the description provided by two separate kidnapping, child molestation, sexual abuse, sexual
the investigation, resulted in the arrest of victims. conduct with a minor, aggravated assault, burglary and
Santana Batiz Aceves, a Mexican citizen After detectives obtained a court order trespassing.”
reportedly in the U.S. illegally, for allegedly and attempted to contact him again at a She praised the “exceptional men and women of the
raping a number of young girls since January residence at California and Ray, he attempted Chandler Police Department” for dedicating the last year
2007 in what has become known as the
Santana Batiz Aceves
to fl ee and was taken in to custody without to this investigation.
Chandler Serial Rapist case. injury. “We are relieved that our community is now a safer
Kiyler says Aceves has been previously Kiyler says Ramirez Lopez was found to place and this offender has been removed from our
arrested in California and deported both in 1999 and have a California driver’s license in his possession with streets.”
2003 as a result of narcotic related offenses. his photograph in the name of Santana Batiz, and was She also credited “the support and assistance” from
Last week, while Chandler police detectives were taken into custody for providing false information to a other criminal justice partners, including the DPS Crime
patrolling the area where the multiple sexual assaults police offi cer. Lab, Gilbert and Tempe Police Departments, the FBI
occurred, they spotted a white, two-door Toyota Tercel A search warrant was served on the suspect’s residence Behavioral Analysis Unit, the Phoenix Police Department
that a witness reported seeing near the location of a and items of evidence related to the sexual assaults and the County Attorney’s Offi ce who is providing
previous attempted assault. Police followed the car and were recovered. Members of the DPS Crime Lab worked prosecutorial support.
made contact with the driver, who said he was Ricardo through the night and confi rmed that the DNA sample
Ramirez Lopez of Casa Grande, to whom the car was from this suspect matched DNA collected at the crime
City, Covance zoning case dismissed
All but one count of a lawsuit fi led against the City Covance spokesperson Camilla J. Strongin expressed “We’re pleased the judge recognized our right to
of Chandler and Covance regarding its zoning of a her client’s view. go to trial to get to the bottom of the secret backroom
parcel of land now owned by the medical research “We are pleased that the judge has ruled in the deal between Covance and Chandler offi cials that we
laboratory have been dismissed by a Maricopa County favor of the City on key parts of the lawsuit brought believe paved the way for this potentially dangerous
Superior Court judge. by PCRM and other animal rights extremists. We facility,” she writes in an email. “As Chandler residents,
The suit, fi led by Physicians Committee for remain confi dent that the remaining count of the case we have a right to expect city offi cials to obey the
Responsible Medicine and local residents, was is without merit and that the City will prevail on it. state’s Open Meeting Law. And as homeowners who
countered by the City of Chandler with a motion to The tactics of extremists against Covance and other live within a few miles of the Covance animal-testing
dismiss for lack of standing. medical research organizations are a disservice to the facility, we have a right to be concerned about the
Honorable Paul J. McMurdie agreed that the millions of people in the Chandler community and potential of this facility to endanger public safety and
“original plaintiffs lacked standing to bring counts nationwide who rely on medical research to make reduce property values.”
2-5,” and dismissed them. However, McMurdie fi nds sure that new medicines are safe, effective and reach No additional information was available at press
count one “to be more properly addressed in a motion those in need as quickly as possible.” time.
for summary judgment,” and denied the motion to Eleanor Weedon, one of the residents who joined
dismiss for count one. the lawsuit, spoke for the group.
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