Convicted rapist Jamaceeo Edwards, has been sentenced to 5+100 years to life, after being found guilty on two consecutive rape charges plus special allegations stemming from an incident in Twentynine Palms in September 2020.
On September 11, 2020, deputies were called to a report of a sexual assault near Highway 62 and Mesquite Springs Road in Twentynine Palms. The victim said she was walking along the highway when she was attacked and assaulted by a man, later identified as Jamaceeo Edwards, 24. Over the following months, investigators gathered additional evidence linking Edwards to the sexual assault. Edwards was charged and found guilty of sodomy by use of force, and sexual penetration by use of force. Both counts contain special allegations which were also found true; including kidnapping, great bodily injury and prior strike convictions.
DNA evidence helped lead to the positive identification of the suspect, as there was no known relationship between Edwards and the victim. Edwards genetic profile had been uploaded into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) from a prior case, and it was confirmed upon comparison to the DNA collected from the Victim’s body that it was 82 septillion (82,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) times more likely to belong to Edwards than any other person on the planet.
Jamaceeo Edwards is currently serving his sentence at the West Valley Detention Center.
