VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KTLA) - A 55-year-old man implicated in a decades-old sexual assault case in Ventura County has been connected to and charged in four Arizona cold cases, officials announced.

The county’s case dates back to 1994 when a victim was reportedly attacked by Abraham Ramirez and managed to escape, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

A sexual assault kit was collected at that time, but the case was later dropped because of insufficient evidence.

Forensic work was recently conducted on the kit as part of the Ventura County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, with a DNA match coming back for Ramirez, authorities said. His profile was loaded into the Combined DNA Index System by the Ventura County Crime Lab, which quickly linked the 55-year-old

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