Police apprehend second man wanted in rape and burning

<p>Police and the FBI in suburban Atlanta arrested a second man wanted in the rape and burning of a woman more than a year ago after the case was featured on America's Most Wanted.</p><p>Juan Nieto, 24, was apprehended at an apartment in DeKalb County, Ga., around 6:30 a.m. Monday, Brown County Chief Deputy John Gossage said.</p><p>A fugitive warrant was issued for Nieto in July, charging that he and Gregario Morales kidnapped a woman from outside a Green Bay nightclub on Aug. 19, 2003, drove her to a field outside town, sexually assaulted her and then doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire.</p><p>The 26-year-old Green Bay mother of two was left for dead but sought help at a nearby house, Gossage said.</p><p>Morales, 27, was picked up in July in Dexter, N.M., and remains in the Brown County Jail on charges of being a party to the crimes of kidnapping, second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious victim and first-degree attempted homicide. A jury trial is scheduled for Jan. 12.</p><p>The two men had been working in Brown County at the time of the assault and were identified through the woman's description and DNA samples collected by their Wisconsin employer, Gossage said.</p><p>A manager at the dairy where the two worked saw composite drawings of the men after the assault, collected two soda bottles from one of the men and put them in plastic bags so authorities could obtain DNA samples.</p><p>The men had left the area by the time the DNA samples linked them to the assault, Gossage said.</p><p>The case was featured Nov. 13 on America's Most Wanted, Gossage said, but investigators still are sorting through the more than 300 tips they received and aren't sure whether any were related to the arrest.</p><p>The woman suffered burns to her arms, legs, face and side, Gossage said.</p><p>"She's a very strong-willed individual that deserves a lot of credit for being able to put up with what she did," he said.</p><p>Officials will seek to have Nieto extradited to Wisconsin. He was charged in July with the same crimes as Morales.</p>

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