LANSING, Mich. -- A former foreign exchange student at Western Michigan University will stand trial on sexual assault charges.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a news release that 40-year-old Al Allan De Los Santos Mueses of the Dominican Republic was bound over on four counts of first-degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.
Nessel's office said that Meuses is alleged to have assaulted a student in 2010 in an apartment. She was 20 years old at the time. She reported the incident to university police right away and underwent a medical examination. Mueses was arrested on July 11 of this year before being extradited to Michigan from Miami.
Here are more details from a news release issued by the Attorney General's office
Meuses is alleged to have assaulted a fellow student in March of 2010, a female then 20 years of age, in his own apartment shortly after meeting her at a campus recreation center. The victim immediately reported the incident to university police and then underwent a forensic medical examination. No charges were issued at the time. Mueses was charged on July 1st of this year and arrested on July 11th before being extradited to Michigan from Miami.
“I remain grateful to our state’s devoted SAKI units and their efforts to bring about justice for victims of sexual assaults perpetrated years ago,” said Nessel at the time of the arraignment. “Their commitment ensures that survivors have the opportunity to see their cases fully investigated and that perpetrators are held accountable.”
Mueses was a foreign exchange student at Western Michigan University between 2009-2013. The investigation into this case remains ongoing by the Kalamazoo Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), and anyone with information about this incident or similar conduct by Mueses is asked to contact Kalamazoo County SAKI Investigator Richard Johnson by phone at 269-569-0515 or email.
The State’s SAKI was established in 2016 to investigate and prosecute sexual assaults related to previously untested sexual assault evidence kits. The SAKI project provides sexual assault victims with the opportunity to have their cases re-investigated in a comprehensive, trauma-informed manner. The Kalamazoo SAKI is a collaborative project of the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office, and the YWCA of Kalamazoo.
The Kalamazoo SAKI Team is in the process of investigating more than 200 cold-case sexual assaults that occurred in Kalamazoo County between 1976 and 2015.
“The investigation into these cases continue despite the difficulties caused by the passage of time and suspects moving to different parts of the world,” said Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey S. Getting at the time of the arraignment. “Hard work, persistence, and a commitment to justice are hallmarks of my office, the Attorney General’s office, and the SAKI program.”
Mueses was bound over to stand trial by Judge Kathleen Hemingway of the 8th District Court in Kalamazoo on August 14. A pretrial date has not yet been set.
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