Crime & Safety

Police: Teen Associated With Car-Jacking Now Facing Sex Charge

He was charged on Friday, police said.

A teen who was implicated in a January car-jacking incident in Rockville has been charged with sexual assault, police said. 

Ryan Lajoie, 18, who had been living in a rooming house at 24 Grove St., but now lives at 701 main St. in Manchester, was charged with risk of injury to a child and second-degree sexual assault on Friday, police said. 

A warrant had been issued for his arrest, police said. 

According to the warrant, Lajoie had consensual sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl. 

The carjacking involved a baseball bat attack and stolen items, police said.
Lajoie has been described by police as not having a permanent address. He had been staying with an acquaintance at 283 Crystal Lake Rd. in Tolland for a time before living in a room at the Grove Street building, police said.

He was arrested in March on the following charges:

• Conspiracy to commit second-degree assault.
• Second-degree assault.
• Conspiracy to commit second-degree larceny.
• Second-degree larceny.
• First-degree robbery.
• Conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.  

He has been one of several suspects on the case, according to police records. 


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