Admitted rapist back in U.S.

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2001 | 3:14 a.m.

FBI Special Agent Daron Borst said Timothy Mobly arrived in Houston, Texas, on Thursday following his arrest in Mexico City.

Proceedings are underway to extradite Mobly to Nevada from Texas, Borst told the Sparks Tribune.

Mobly was convicted in 1999 of raping the two Sparks women he met on the Internet. Mobly and his roommate Aaron Cross both admitted raping a teen-ager and Mobly confessed to attacking a woman known only as Jennifer W.

Cross remained jailed after his arrest and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms April 30, 1999. Mobly posted $20,000 bail, but fled before his sentencing and has been a fugitive since.

Borst said Mobly was arrested in Mexico City after an acquaintance discovered him listed on the FBI's web site.

Washoe County District Attorney Richard Gammick is not discussing efforts to return Mobly to Reno because of security concerns, but said Mobly still faces the three life terms he fled to avoid when he is sentenced.

"We're going to put Mobly away for as long as possible," Gammick said.

When Jennifer reported her rape to Sparks police in November 1998, they scoffed at her and called her a liar.

When the 17-year-old high school junior reported being raped by Mobly two years ago this week, police finally believed Jennifer's story.

She sued the city of Sparks, the police department, three detectives and the police chief for more than $900,000 saying she was humiliated when she tried to report the crime. The suit was resolved in August with a $24,999 judgment and she reached an undisclosed settlement with the four officers, according to her attorney, Marc Picker.

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