Charges against a Pierceton man accused of raping three teenage girls he knew in July have been dropped by the Kosciusko County Prosecutor's office.

Maximo Pete Ybarra, 22, was being held in the Kosciusko County Jail after being charged with three counts of rape (class B felonies), one count of child molestation (class A felony) and one count of theft (class D felony) in Kosciusko County.

The prosecutor's office decided last week not to proceed with the charges after the investigation revealed conflicting evidence.

Additionally, court records show that two of the alleged victims, girls now 16 and 17 years old, could not be served with subpoenas for depositions because they could not be located.

According to a police report filed July 21 at the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, three juvenile girls reported being raped at a residence on Channel Road in Warsaw.

The three girls, ages 13, 16 and 17 at the time of the incident, said they were sleeping at approximately 1 a.m. July 21 when Ybarra allegedly reached into an open window and pulled them outside and raped them in a neighbor's yard.

After raping the girls, Ybarra reportedly kissed each of them, stood up, laughed and left the scene after telling the oldest girl he would kill her if she told anyone.

After a warrant was issued for his arrest in August, Ybarra disappeared until he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Edinburg, Texas, in September. Ybarra was extradited to Warsaw.

Ybarra remains in custody at the Kosciusko County Jail while awaiting a June 9 trial for an alleged theft. The theft case goes back to a May 2004 incident at Maple Leaf Farms, where he allegedly broke a window in a parked car and stole a purse. [[In-content Ad]]