An incarcerated man is facing new rape and kidnapping charges after a DNA database search tied him to an abduction and sexual assault that police say happened 25 years ago in Northeast Baltimore.

Michael Harris, 50, who is serving time at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown for an unrelated case, was indicted last week on charges stemming from a woman’s report in June 2000 that she had been forced into a car at gunpoint, driven away and raped.

Harris is represented by the Office of the Public Defender, which did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Baltimore Police said in 2000 that a man told officers that he and his girlfriend had just left dinner at a Harford Road restaurant when they were both robbed by two masked suspects. One of them stole the man’s A

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