A Western North Carolina man is in custody on a child sex crime charge more than 25 years after the fact. The Asheville Police Department says they began investigating a statutory rape case in 1999.
Police have now announced that 75 year old, Darnell Rex Young has been arrested for statutory rape of a child. Police say recent discoveries of forensic evidence led to Young's arrest.
Police have not revealed the age of the child at the time of the incident. Young is being held in Buncombe County on a bond of $100,000 dollars.





