Milton Township police investigating rape allegation

LAKE MILTON — Police continue investigating an 18-year-old Canfield woman’s accusation that she was raped by a 17-year-old Austintown boy she knew on Nov. 14 in a commercial garage on Mahoning Avenue in Milton Township.

Police got warrants to search the scene of the alleged rape, the suspect’s residence, and to get a DNA sample from the suspect, said Lt. Jeffrey J. Lewis of the Milton Township Police Department.

Police have not yet received the DNA test results, and the boy has not been arrested, but possible charges have been referred to the Mahoning County Juvenile Court prosecutor, Lewis said.

Police took from the boy’s residence the clothing he wore the night of the alleged assault; and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation agents took samples from the couch where the alleged rape occurred, Lewis said.

Lewis today asked any witnesses who may have seen or heard anything related to this case to contact him.