PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A man sought by Pikeville Police in connection with a pair of sexual assaults targeting female University of Pikeville students in the city parking garage was arrested late Tuesday night.
Terry Weston Rogers, 29, of Pikeville, was booked in the Pike County Detention Center around 11 p.m., Tuesday, on a charge of third-degree sexual abuse. That charge is a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of 90 days in jail.
Police had been searching for a man who had assaulted two women, one on Aug. 23 and another on Aug. 27.
The arrest warrant only mentions the Aug. 27 incident, when it alleges that Rogers “unlawfully and intentionally subjected another person, a stranger who was over the age of 18, to sexual contact without consent in the Pikeville Parking Garage.”
Rogers already had three pending criminal cases in Pike County, two for fourth-degree assault dating violence and one for third-degree criminal abuse of a child. All of those charges are also misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in jail.
In court on Wednesday morning, Rogers pleaded not guilty to the charge. District Judge Tommy May ordered that he could be released to home incarceration after posting a $10,000 surety bond, but he remained in jail at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Police have also obtained a search warrant for Rogers’ College Street apartment, in an effort to locate the clothing and other items that were seen in surveillance video of the suspect.
