Kansas Man Arrested In Woodbury After Rape, Kidnapping Conviction

WOODBURY, MN — A man who was convicted earlier this month in Kansas on a slew of felonies stemming from a 2003 sexual assault was arrested Friday in Woodbury, according to court records.

Pernell Adam Mack, 38, of Topeka, Kansas, was charged Friday in Washington County with one count of being a fugitive from justice from another state, court records show. He is set to be extradited to Kansas, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

Woodbury police and U.S. marshals were called Friday morning to a home on Beechwood Lane, where Mack barricaded himself in the basement and refused to exit, MN CRIME reported, citing police dispatch audio.

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Police evacuated the home and issued a shelter-in-place order to nearby homes Friday before Mack was arrested, the report states.

Mack was convicted in May in Shawnee County, Kansas, on charges of rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary, according to the criminal complaint against him.

Police were called to a Topeka home in April 2003, where a woman reported she was put a chokehold and had a gun pointed at her head by two people who “pistol whipped” and robbed her before sexually assaulting her, KSNT reported.

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Shawnee County deputies did not identify a suspect in the case until 2020, when the Kansas Bureau of Investigation matched Mack’s DNA to evidence that was found at the woman’s home in 2003, KSNT reported.

Mack was charged in April 2020 with rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary after a DNA sample taken from Mack confirmed the match, according to the report.

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