Suspect in Eugene Fern Ridge Trail rape case arraigned in Lane County court

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A 42-year-old man accused of raping a woman on the Fern Ridge Trail bike path along Amazon Creek in Eugene on Aug. 8 was arraigned on charges in a Lane County Circuit Court on Monday.

According to the Eugene Police Department, officers responded to reports of a rape on the bike path just before 11 a.m. The woman described the suspect as a white man, about 40 years old, with brown hair and last seen wearing a black-and-white sleeveless shirt with writing along the back, green shoes and a tattoo on one of his arms.

The suspect was seen pushing a bicycle and later used it to flee, the EPD said in a news release at the time.

Timothy Colnar, 42, was booked at the Lane County Jail on Sept. 26 for an unrelated warrant out of Lincoln County on a charge of fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence and harassment.

Though it was not immediately clear how investigators tied Colnar to the case, he was officially charged on Monday with first-degree rape, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and first-degree sexual abuse, according to court documents.

Colnar has a pretrial conference hearing on Nov. 11 and, as of Monday evening, remained in custody at the Lane County jail.

Haleigh Kochanski is a breaking news and public safety reporter for The Register-Guard. You may reach her at HKochanski@gannett.com.

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