DNA key for arrest in sexual assault of 13-year-old in West Palm Beach

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (CBS12) — Detectives say they located an undocumented immigrant matching the description of a wanted man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager in West Palm Beach on Jan. 3.

The suspect, Santo Omar Martinez-Varela, was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on counts of sexual assault of a minor and false imprisonment.

On Jan. 3, deputies say that Martinez-Varela approached a 13-year-old girl near Pinehurst Park and Forest Hill Blvd in West Palm Beach around 11 p.m. and began to forcibly sexually assault her…

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