PEORIA, Ariz. — Valley police have made an arrest in a nearly twenty-year-old case.

In collaboration with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, the Peoria Police Department arrested 43-year-old Stephen Lipton in connection with a 2009 kidnapping and sexual assault of a child, a news release states.

Lipton was taken into custody on July 31 after a recent DNA match, police said.

The investigation into the case began in January 2009. An 8-year-old reported being approached by a man while she was walking home from a nearby elementary school.

The suspect, who police said posed as a police officer and claimed to be a friend of the girl's mother, allegedly convinced the child to get into his vehicle.

"He then drove her to a nearby neighborhood where he committed heinous acts on her and rele

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