Man accused of 2018 rape now in Boone County Jail

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man who was charged with rape earlier this year and was arrested in St. Louis last month is now in the Boone County Jail.  

Antonio Bates, 58, was charged in June with first-degree rape. He was arrested in late November in St. Louis and was booked into the Boone County Jail at 10:59 p.m. Wednesday, jail records show. Jail records show Bates is from St. Louis, while court records list his address as Columbia.

Court documents state that at 3 a.m. July 24, 2018, police were called to a sexual assault in the 800 block of Ann Street. Police wrote the victim reported being outside near a garden area of an apartment when a conversation started with Bates, whom the victim did not know.

Bates forced the woman to the ground and assaulted her, police say. A sexual assault examination yielded DNA that matched Bates, the statement says.