By Shavonne Potts
spotts@salisburypost.com
A former Salisbury resident was charged 23 years after police say he raped a woman and burglarized a Salisbury home.
Kenneth Trent McDaniel, 39, a native of Salisbury, was in a Virginia jail when DNA evidence linked him to a 1986 rape. The incident occurred on Boundary Street, which is now Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. The crime happened in the early on a July morning in 1986.
McDaniel, also known as Furquan Abdul Aziz Shabazz, was charged by Salisbury Police with first-degree rape, first-degree burglary and felony larceny.
Investigators developed a suspect in October 2007 and a rape kit was sent to the SBI crime lab for analysis, said Deputy Chief Rory Collins.
Collins said according to a report, SBI officials notified the police in August 2008 that they’d made a positive DNA match.
Salisbury Police detectives interviewed McDaniel in August 2008, when he was being held in a Virginia jail for grand larceny charges.
McDaniel is a sex offender on the Virginia registry for a 1990 conviction in Rowan County for rape.
In 1986, he was convicted of felony breaking and entering and misdemeanor receiving stolen goods. In 1989, McDaniel was convicted of common law robbery and felony breaking and entering. In 1990, he was convicted of first-degree burglary and second-degree rape, for which he served 17 years in prison.
He is in the Rowan County Detention Center under $500,000 bond.