MOULTRIE, Ga. – Byron Mejia, 29, was charged April 24 with rape and aggravated assault.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Justin Searcy received a request to respond to a sexual assault on Old Adel Road. Searcy made contact with a woman who said that she had been sexually assaulted by a male acquaintance.

Investigators were able to locate Mejia and interviewed him. Searcy said that during the interview he confessed to sexually assaulting the woman. 

A month earlier, Mejia had been charged with aggravated assault on the same woman.