A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday in connection to a 2014 rape, according to police.
A 22-year-old woman reported the rape, which allegedly happened April 11 or 12, 2014, to police on April 10, 2018. She was a senior in high school at the time of the incident.
She went to the police station with two of her friends to make a report.
The woman told officers she blacked out at a party in the 1300 block of North Lincoln Street in 2014 and woke up at her friend’s house the next morning. When she woke up, her friends — the women who accompanied her to the station — told her she’d been raped the night before.
The friends told the 22-year-old they saw a man having sex with her as she lay outside the party house. They reported that the man then left the party, and they collected their friend and helped her home.
Police said the women used Facebook after the alleged rape and asked around to find out who the man was. They determined it was Alexander Butcher, who was 22 at the time.
The friends told officers they encouraged the woman to report the rape to police in 2014, but she did not. No rape kit was collected.
Butcher, now 26, told police he didn't know anything about the incident. Bloomington Police Department Detective Kevin Frank said he didn’t feel Butcher was being truthful.
Police found Butcher at his apartment Tuesday and took him to the station. He denied involvement in the alleged rape and was arrested on rape charges.
