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Wes Clarence Max Rhodes, 39, faces charges for a 2022 sexual assault.

Rhodes was linked to the crime through DNA evidence collected from the victim, charges say.

He was previously convicted in 2023 for enticing a minor in an online sting.

WEST VALLEY CITY — A South Salt Lake man on probation after being convicted in an undercover sting in 2023 has now been linked to the sexual assault of a teenage girl the year before.

Wes Clarence Max Rhodes, 39, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with rape and two counts of forcible sodomy, first-degree felonies, and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.

In August 2022, a 16-year-old runaway girl told police that a man offered her a ride. But after getting into the man's car and drivin

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