DNA links Georgia sex offender Benjamin to string of 1990's violent rapes and home invasions in Queens New York

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DNA links Georgia sex offender Benjamin to string of 1990's violent rapes and home invasions in Queens New York

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QUEENS, NEW YORK - A Georgia man was arrested this week nearly three decades after he allegedly invaded five women’s Queens homes and brutally raped them — in some cases at gunpoint or with their kid in the next room, according to authorities.

Michael Benjamin, 57, was cuffed Thursday morning after DNA evidence from a discarded cup linked him to numerous “violent” rapes in southeast Queens between 1995 and 1997, according to prosecutors and police sources.

Sheriff’s office and then matched the sample to DNA evidence from the separate rape cases, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.

Benjamin was extradited to the Big Apple on Wednesday and booked on charges including rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, sexual assault in the first degree, and burglary in the first degree, prosecutors said.

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