Story County Drops Sexual Assault Charges Against Ames and Boone Teens

Charges against two teenagers alleging their involvement in a reported kidnapping and sexual assault in July were dropped after video graphic evidence placed them at a Gilbert gas station when the assault took place, the Associated Press and Ames Tribune reports.

David Duane Price, 16, and James William Carsel, 16, of Boone, were charged along with Mason McKay Reilly, 20, with second-degree sexual assault in July. At the time the Story County Sheriff's Office reported that a 17-year-old Hamilton County girl said she was taken from her own back yard and raped at Peterson Pits Park northeast of Ames.

An Ames woman reported the initial assault July 26, after the teen walked out of the woods and said she had been raped.

Charges against Reilly are still pending, but he has pleaded not guilty.

According to the Ames Tribune article, both Price and Carsel were videotaped at a Casey's General Store in Gilbert at the time the assault reportedly happened. There was also testimony that showed that Price and Carsel then went to Boone and fixed a fence.