Lifetime registered predatory offender in Minneapolis charged with another rape

A man registered for life as a predatory offender for sexually assaulting a minor has been charged for a third time with rape, and Hennepin County prosecutors are pledging to use evidence against him from a previous count that they dropped two years ago in a plea deal.

Clifford L. Lea, 42, was charged last week with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a November attack at his Minneapolis home on a woman he met a few months earlier through an online dating app. Lea remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail ahead of a Feb. 1 court appearance.

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