Durham, NC: Ex-UNC Instructor Arrested On Rape Charges

From News & Observer:

By Matt Dees, Staff Writer

U.S. marshals arrested a former UNC-Chapel Hill instructor in the Dominican Republic last week after he fled charges of raping a teenage family member.

John Francis Dye, 48, of Durham, was tracked down in San Francisco De Macoris, D.R., by officials monitoring his e-mails, said Kammie Michael, a Durham police spokeswoman.

He was returned to Miami on Monday and will be extradited to Durham to face six felony counts, Michael said, including second-degree rape, incest and intercourse by a guardian.

Investigators say they think Dye raped the girl for more than a year before his wife caught him in the act Sept. 24, according to a search warrant.

The girl’s mother filed a police report, and police said Dye agreed Sept. 29, through his attorney, to surrender, the warrant said. He was working at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., Michael said.

The next day Dye’s attorney called authorities to say he had been “unhired” and he didn’t know what became of Dye, Michael said.

Immigration records show Dye entered Haiti on Oct. 3, the warrant said.

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