James Lorenzo Greene, 49, of Fairmount Heights, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court to 23 years in prison for a 2000 first-degree rape in Montgomery Village, identified through a DNA match in a 23-year cold case investigation. He will also serve five years of supervised probation upon release and must register as a sex offender for life.
According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, “Greene pleaded guilty to first-degree rape on May 22, 2025, for an incident that occurred on July 26, 2000. Green approached a man and woman walking along Walker’s Choice Road in Montgomery Village early that morning, around 1:55 a.m. He robbed them at gunpoint, instructed the man to lie face down on the ground, and raped the woman.
The case was unsolved for 23 years until Montgomery County Police Cold Case Detectives submitted evidence from the crime scene to the crime laboratory and a DNA profile was extracted from the evidence. The DNA was submitted into the Combined DNA Index System and matched to Greene. Detectives arrested Greene on September 6, 2023, at his residence in Prince George’s County.
“We are grateful that after 25 years, the victim in this case is finally seeing a resolution. We thank the Montgomery County Cold Case Unit for its dedication to seeking justice,” said State’s Attorney
John McCarthy. Assistant State’s Attorneys Donna Fenton and Rachel Morris prosecuted this case.”