Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 27-year-old Omar Clark of Buffalo pleaded guilty before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to one count of Attempted Rape in the First Degree, a Class “C” violent felony. The defendant pleaded guilty on Monday, July 15, 2019.

The defendant admitted that on Sunday, March 18, 2018, at approximately 8:30 p.m., he attempted to engage in sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion with a victim on Allen Street in the City of Buffalo. The defendant was not known to the victim, and he was identified through DNA evidence.

Clark faces a maximum of 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on Monday, August 26, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. He remains held without bail.

DA Flynn commends Detectives Jeff Banes and Mark Costantino of the Buffalo Police Department Special Victims Bureau for their work in the investigation. The DA also commends DA’s Confidential Criminal Investigators Mike Nigrelli and Mark Vaughn, and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Donna Hutchins from ECMC.

The case was prosecuted by Rosanne E. Johnson, Chief of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Cathleen M. Roemer of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau.