LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A Mexican national accused of violently raping a woman in a Lancaster County hotel last year had his case proceed to trial following a preliminary hearing last month, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Jose Luis Izquierdo-Sanchez, a native of Cárdenas in the Mexican state of Tabasco, told police he was living in the United States illegally after his arrest for raping a woman at the Clarion Inn in Strasburg last December, prosecutors said.
At a preliminary hearing on March 4, Lancaster County Judge William Benner determined there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial…