Arrest made in 2004 sexual assault case thanks to grant given to Pima Co. Sheriffâs Dept.
Pima County sexual assault crime kits By Karly Tinsley | February 26, 2021 at 10:12 PM MST - Updated February 26 at 10:13 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Victims of sexual assault may be closer to closure and justice thanks to a new grant given to the Pima County Sheriffâs Department.
SAKI, or Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, provided the department with $2 million in order to test their backlog of sexual assault kits.
Some of the kits dated back to the 1980s.
The sheriffâs department had 354 untested sexual assault kits to start. They were able to send all of them to be tested in a group, and out of those 206 DNA profiles were developed that were entered into CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System.