Man Heading to Trial on Rape Charges

A Scott Township man will go to trial on most of the charges.

Aaron Duran, 36, is accused of drugging the drinks of two women on separate occasions at area bars before taking them back to his Greentree Road home and raping them.

Scott police arrested him on March 6 and charged him with two counts each of sexual assault, raping an unconscious victim and rape of a substantially impaired person.

At a preliminary hearing on April 12, held him for trial on one sexual assault charge and three of the four rape charges. Zyra dismissed the other two charges.

Scott police allege Duran drugged a 34-year-old woman’s drink while at a McKees Rocks strip club on June 30 and took her home before raping her. Police also said he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Moon Township woman on Sept. 17.

Duran is free on $100,000 bond and now is waiting for his trial to be scheduled at Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.