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Orange man guilty of assaulting women in his home

An Orange County man was sentenced last week to prison after being convicted of attacking two women in a home near Chapel Hill last year.

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Larry Johnson Edwards
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — An Orange County man was sentenced last week to prison after being convicted of attacking two women in a home near Chapel Hill last year.

A jury found Larry Johnson Edwards, 61, of 16 Alston Drive, guilty in the attacks, and a judge sentenced him to two consecutive prison terms of 86 to 113 months.

One woman was beaten with a crutch so badly that the crutch broke, and the second woman was beaten with a foot stool, authorities said. Both women were sexually assaulted.

Investigators said Edwards used drugs to lure women to his home. Crack cocaine and other drugs were seized during a March 2010 search of the house.

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