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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are reviewing all rapes reported since October of last year after arresting an 18-year-old man they say was responsible for two rapes in that period.
Derrick Raheem Swann, of the 5000 block of Farm Pond Lane, faces 12 charges, including three counts of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree rape and one count of assault on a child younger than 12. Swann is in the Mecklenburg County jail under a more than $900,000 bond.

Police said Thursday a DNA match links Swann to the rapes of a 68-year-old woman as well as a 27-year-old woman attacked in front of her children.

Swann was out on bond when the second rape occurred, according to court records.

Those charges -- breaking and entering, possession of burglary tools and second-degree trespassing -- were dismissed by the District Attorney's Office this month.

In the time between the two rapes, Swann also faced at least four counts of second-degree trespassing, three of which were dismissed, and at least two counts of breaking and entering, both also dismissed.

The first rape occurred on the afternoon of Oct. 8, 2005, when someone broke into a home along Rama Road. A man robbed a mother and daughter, ages 97 and 68, and raped the daughter, according to a police report. The man was armed with a knife and blunt object, and stole a purse, the report stated.

More than a year later, on the morning of Nov. 29, an unarmed man broke into a home along Farm Pond Lane in east Charlotte. He raped a 27-year-old woman in front of her two children, one younger than 1 and the other age 4, then stole a digital printer, a ninja sword and a 1999 Ford Expedition, according to a police report.

The attacker didn't know either rape victim, police said.

Matching DNA was recovered in both cases. It was then compared to DNA collected from a breaking and entering that police say Swann committed. On Thursday, the crime lab confirmed a match, and police arrested Swann about a half-block from his home that afternoon, said Sgt. Darrell Price.

Swann lived near the second victim, police said, declining to say what else led authorities to test his DNA. It's not unusual to collect DNA for a breaking and entering case, said Price, adding that it's a beginning crime for some rapists.