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MAGNA — A Magna man sentenced to prison three months ago for raping a teenage girl is now accused of seuxally assaulting a woman in 2017.
Ryan David Lucero, 36, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with rape, a first-degree felony, and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.
Lucero is accused of grabbing a woman walking home in Salt Lake County on Aug. 11, 2017, and sexually assaulting her. Forensic evidence was collected and a match was made in 2023 using a national DNA database, according to police.
In a separate case, Lucero was sentenced in October in Utah County to serve at least 10 years and up to life in the Utah State Prison for the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
On Dec. 17, 2021, a teen girl — who had run away from home and was barefoot — was using the pedestrian tunnel across University Parkway near the Utah Valley University campus when Lucero followed her and offered to buy her a pair of shoes. The girl went with Lucero, who took her to a nearby apartment complex and sexually assaulted her near a shed.
He was arrested in February of 2022, and pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, 2023 to rape of a child and sodomy on a child, first-degree felonies.
