DNA evidence match brings charge for 2016 rape

An Indianapolis man has been charged with rape after police matched his DNA to a 2016 incident in Greenwood.

Charles T. MacKenzie, 28, of Indianapolis was charged with rape, a Level 3 felony, in Johnson County Superior Court 3 on Aug. 4. He was arrested on a warrant Thursday afternoon.

On Jan. 18, 2016, Greenwood police were dispatched to a restaurant on the 1200 block of Greenwood Park Drive East on an investigation call. When officers arrived, they spoke with a woman who said that she had been raped sometime between Jan. 17-18, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The woman told police she had left the restaurant and gone to her home in Marion County to change before meeting a friend at a bar in Greenwood. The woman and her friend were sitting at a table having a drink after playing pool when they were approached by three men. Two of the men said they were brothers from Tennessee who called themselves Alpha and Omega, while the third male was not named.

The woman and her friend spoke to the men briefly before she went to the restroom. When she returned, her friend appeared to have passed out, something she was confused about as her friend had not drank enough alcohol to be in this condition, the affidavit says.

The men offered to take them home and posed as employees of the bar. They took the friend to their home first, and the woman and the men went to an unknown hotel, where Alpha and Omega exited. The woman and unknown man went back to the bar after this, the affidavit said.

At some point on the way back to the bar, the unknown man stopped the car and told the woman to climb in the back seat several times, with the woman continuously saying no. The woman told police she did not recall what happened after that, but when she returned to the bar, she was not wearing her sweater, according to the affidavit.

The woman went inside the bar and told a bartender about what happened. The woman said she was sore and knew something sexual had happened, the affidavit says.

More than 5.5 years later, on Oct. 28, police received a DNA match from the Indiana State Police lab regarding a DNA sample taken at the time of the rape from the victim. The DNA matched Charles Bobb, whose real name is MacKenzie, the affidavit says. He fits part of the description of the unknown man, who was approximately six feet tall with black hair. MacKenzie is six feet tall, five inches and has black hair, records show.

MacKenzie, under the name Bobb, was arrested by Avon Police in June 2021 on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. With this information, police later obtained a search warrant for MacKenzie’s DNA, the affidavit says.

He remains at the Johnson County jail on a $30,000 bond. An initial hearing has been set for Aug. 22.