Authorities said DNA evidence connected him to the crime.
The defendant, Montelle J. Brown, 28, was held for court on charges including first-degree felony counts of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and burglary in the attack on the female student in her dorm room in Ravine-Narvik Hall on the Allegheny campus on Dec. 10, 2019.
Meadville police accuse Brown of raping and sexually assaulting the victim at gunpoint.
The attack remained unsolved for more than a year until authorities announced in February that DNA evidence collected in the rape investigation matched Brown s DNA.
Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz said in announcing the filing of charges against Brown that, at the time forensic evidence was initially tested in the rape case, Brown s DNA was not in the Combined DNA Index System database.
MEADVILLE A DNA match has led to the filing of charges against a Meadville man in a city police investigation into the rape of a female Allegheny College student in a campus dormitory room in December 2019.
The defendant, Montelle J. Brown, 28, faces charges including first-degree felony counts of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and burglary.
The Meadville Police Department charged Brown on Wednesday. He is an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, in Huntingdon in central Pennsylvania.
Arrangements are being made for Meadville District Judge Samuel Pendolino to arraign Brown on the new charges by video conferencing, authorities said.