County police are asking for help in finding a suspect mistakenly released from prison and wanted in connection with a brutal sexual assault.
Ronald Lee Moore, 40, a convicted burglar, “was released [Nov. 21] instead of being turned over to the Anne Arundel County Detention Center because of an oversight at the Division of Correction Commitment Office,” said Mark Vernarelli, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Moore was released even though he was ordered to be held on no bail. Moore, of Silver Spring, is charged with first- and second-degree sex offense, unnatural or perverted practice, second-degree assault and first-degree burglary related to an Oct. 23, 1999, incident.
A source familiar with the case said Moore also lives at 525 Old Home Road in Baltimore and got married while in prison.
He entered a woman?s Glen Burnie apartment, sexually assaulted and punched her, and shocked her with a “cow prod,” police said.
Moore?s DNA was matched last July to semen from the attack.
His DNA was in the FBI?s Combined DNA Index for an unrelated burglary in 2000, according to court documents.
Detectives obtained an arrest warrant May 22, and the county sheriff?s department sent an order to the Maryland Division of Corrections to inform prison officials not to release Moore, said Kristin Riggin, spokeswoman for the State?s Attorney?s Office.
Anne Arundel Circuit Judge William Mulford postponed Moore?s October trial and ordered him held without bail.
He failed to show up Monday in court; Mulford ordered a bench warrant for his arrest.
Moore had been in prison since 1999 for a series of burglaries.
