CPD: Arrest made in Madison Avenue rape case Mugshot of Lenny Riccardo Dortch courtesy Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail (Source: ACRJ) By NBC29 Newsroom | December 24, 2020 at 8:41 AM EST - Updated December 24 at 11:12 AM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Charlottesville Police Department has arrested and charged a Portsmouth man in connection with a reported rape in the Madison Avenue area.
CPD announced Thursday, December 24, that 41-year-old Lenny Riccardo Dortch was charged yesterday with rape, abduction with the intent to defile, and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
A woman was reportedly raped at gunpoint in the 700 block of Madison Ave. Thursday, December 17. Detectives had collected some surveillance video during their investigation.
Photo: WINA
CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Charlottesville Police have arrested a 41-year old Portsmouth man in the rape earlier this week of a woman on Madison Avenue. Lenny Riccardo Dortch was arrested Wednesday in the 600 block of 13th Street NW in Charlottesville on a warrant out of Portsmouth involving a probation violation. Based on evidence collected in six days of tireless investigation of the December 17th rape, charges of rape, abduction with intent to defile, and use of a firearm in committing a felony have been brought against Dortch.
Police are thanking the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners at UVa Medical along with residents and are businesses who provided video surveillance footage requested during the course of the investigation.