In 2001, a woman was dragged into a Pacific Beach alley and sexually assaulted at knifepoint. It took more than 20 years to make an arrest, but on Wednesday, the man eventually convicted as her assailant was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court to 15 years to life in prison.

John House, 53, was charged for a 2001 assault more than two decades later, when DNA evidence collected in his arrest in a different sex crime case tied him to the Pacific Beach attack.

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced Wednesday that a man who dragged a woman into an alley and sexually assaulted her in 2001 has been sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison.