Sacramento Police Arrest Natomas Sexual Assault Suspect
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) –- A former Sacramento football star who made it all the way to the NFL is now behind bars, accused of sexual assault and at least three home invasions robberies.
Officers arrested 31-year-old Keith Wright at 10:30 p.m. on Monday, a little over a week after they believed he robbed and sexually assaulted a victim during a home invasion on Kokomo Drive in the north Natomas area.
Investigators say Wright entered the Kokomo Drive home through an unlocked door, robbed the victim at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her.
Detectives believed the Kokomo Drive home invasion was linked to two prior home invasions in the Natomas area due to their similarities.
When property stolen from the two prior robberies was connected to Wright, detectives had DNA samples from the Kokomo sexual assault tested and put into the national DNA database of criminal offenders.
A sample of Wright's DNA was already in the database from a previous arrest.
One resident of the Homecoming apartment complex in the area said she stopped taking her kids to parks there because of the crimes. She said she hopes Wright stays in prison "for a very long time."
Wright played at Sacramento City College in 1999 and was an All-Big 12 defensive end at Missouri. He was drafted by the Houston Texans and signed to a $925,000 contract in 2003, but then bounced around NFL practice squads the next several seasons, last playing for the Detroit Lions in 2006.
Wright is being held without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail on four felony counts of robbery, kidnapping, sexual assault and burglary along with one misdemeanor count of sexual battery.
