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11/212016 Mound man charged with criminal sexual conduct I Public Safety I awnewsmedia.com <br />Sign up <br />http://www.swnewsmedia.com/lakeshore_weekly/news/public_safety/mound-man-charged with-criminal✓sexual-conductiarticle_2ebeaGa6-7095-5ab7-b20b- <br />491 c6ed09018. html <br />TOP STORY <br />Mound man charged with criminal sexual conduct <br />A Schwarz Oct 31, 2016 <br />A Mound man is facing criminal sexual conduct charges, and if convicted, he could face life in prison, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman <br />announced Oct 28. <br />Matthew Joel Reinitz, 37, was indicted Thursday, Oct. 27 on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of second-degree <br />criminal sexual conduct for attacking a woman Dec. 4. As of the morning of Oct. 31, he was still in custody in Hennepin County Jail being held on <br />$2 million bail, accordingto the adult corrections facility roster. <br />"Mr. Relnitz has been convicted of a previous sexual assault," Freeman said. "Once we had sufficient evidence to link him to last year's torture of <br />a woman in his home, we decided he is a threatto public safety and needs to be taken off the streets for the rest of his life if we can prove his <br />guilt." <br />According to the criminal complaint filed against Reinitz last month, police were sent to a church in Minneapolis on the afternoon of Dec. 4 <br />where they found a woman who was crying and bleeding from the neck. She was taken to the hospital and later told investigators that a cab had <br />been sent to pick her up and bring her to an apartment in Northeast Minneapolis. <br />The victim told police she was a prostitute and Reinitz had seen her ad in Backpage. Not long after she entered the home, she said Reinitz tied <br />up her hands and legs and, for awhile, put duct tape over her mouth, He cut off her clothes with a knife and repeatedly raped her, the complaint <br />states. <br />He eventually took her into the bathroom and stabbed her twice, at least once in the neck. She pleaded with him to let her go and promised not <br />to go to the police. He gave her a towel and her clothes and she fled out the door. <br />http:l/www.swnewsmedia.comflakeshore weeklylnewslpubiic safetylmound-man-charger-with-criminal-sexual-conductlarticle 2ebeaOa6-7095-5db7-b20b-49... 112 <br />