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CEDAR CITY — A California man pleaded guilty this week to attempting to rape a teenage girl while in a motor home parked in a Cedar City parking lot.

Luis Lopez, 32, was charged in January in 5th District Court with rape, object rape and forcible sodomy, first-degree felonies; possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, a third-degree felony; providing alcohol to a minor, a class A misdemeanor; and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class B misdemeanor.

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted rape, a first-degree felony. In exchange, the other charges were dismissed.

In January, a 14-year-old girl had run away from a group home in Parowan and met Lopez at the Walmart in Cedar City, where she asked

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