Convicted felon accused of sexually assaulting Spring ISD high schooler after offering ride to police station

SPRING, Texas – A Spring man with multiple felony convictions has been taken into custody and charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Spring Independent School District high school student last September.

Johnny Ray Green, 43, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault of a child. His bond was denied on Tuesday morning.

Green was arrested Monday by the Harris County Violent Persons Warrant Task Force. His arrest came after a variety of different elements of evidence linked him to the crime.

“It was a total investigative approach,” Spring ISD Police Chief Matt Rodrigue told KPRC 2’s Bryce Newberry. “With the use of DNA, surveillance cameras from area businesses and locations, and then also from the use of certain types of cameras that are deployed all throughout the Houston metro area, we were able to put the pieces together of the puzzle to identify this suspect.”

He is accused of picking up an intoxicated student under the pretense that he would drive her to the police station to make sure she got home.

Instead, he allegedly took her back to his house where the rape occurred last fall.

Now that Green is in custody, investigators have shifted their attention to seeking other victims. Officials are asking anyone who may have been victimized by Green to come forward.

“We’re going to keep looking,” Chief Rodrigue said. “In my mind, this is a predator, and I’m glad he’s off the streets. Unfortunately, predators often go after multiple victims. If there is somebody, they see this guy’s picture, and they recognize him, please reach out.”

Harris County prosecutors plan to ask a judge to hold Green without bond pending trial under the new voter-approved Proposition 3, which allows Texas judges to deny bail for certain violent offenses, which includes aggravated kidnapping.

What happened

According to charging documents, Spring ISD police were called to Andy Dekaney High School on Sept. 3, 2025, regarding a documented runaway who had returned to the campus.

The victim, a 15-year-old girl who was a 10th-grader at the school, was found sitting near a door and appeared impaired, according to police. She seemed to be too intoxicated to answer questions, and she said her body was in pain. EMS was called to the school.

Investigators said the victim reported leaving campus earlier that day and walking toward a nearby fast-food restaurant when she was approached by a man driving a pickup truck.

She told police the man claimed he would take her to a police station. She said he “sounded like a genuine guy,” and she agreed to get into his car. After she got in, she said he patted her down to make sure she wasn’t an undercover officer.

Instead of going to the police station, she said he drove her back to his house, where a graphic sexual assault took place.

She provided authorities details of the suspect’s home, and she described his bedroom as “messy.” She added that she assumed that he didn’t live alone, because she noticed a pair of black high heels in his room.

After the assault occurred, court records say the suspect turned on Netflix, and he selected a profile under the name “John.” The victim said she asked him if his name was “John,” and he said no before quickly turning off the TV.

He also reportedly told her he was 25 years old.

After the assault, court records say the suspect dropped the victim off near the location where she was first kidnapped. She said he gave her $10 to get something to eat.

The investigation

As part of the investigation, police reviewed surveillance video from a bank and nearby businesses.

Records state the footage shows the victim walking through a parking lot on the afternoon of Sept. 3, followed shortly by a red Ram pickup truck with tan trim entering the area. Additional video captured the truck leaving, stopping at a gas station, and later returning to the same parking lot, where the victim is seen exiting the passenger side.

Investigators later received results from the victim’s assault exam, which detected male DNA on the victim’s clothing.

In December, authorities were notified of a CODIS hit—essentially a match in a national DNA database—identifying the DNA as belonging to Green. Police located a vehicle matching the one seen on surveillance at Green’s residence in Spring.

Chief Rodriguez explained that the evidence in this case was gathered fairly quickly compared to other sexual assault investigations.

“When we start talking about confirming DNA evidence, that’s not an overnight process; that does take weeks, sometimes months, maybe even longer,” he said. “Really, for this type of crime, we’re talking a time span of less than three months. So actually, a pretty quick turnaround.”

Last week, investigators conducted surveillance and again observed Green driving the same pickup truck seen in the footage.

A photo lineup was then prepared, and the victim identified Green as the suspect, according to court documents.

Green’s criminal history

Green’s criminal history includes convictions for felony aggravated robbery in 2000 and felony possession of a controlled substance in 2008.

According to court records, Green was arrested in 2021 for continuous sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl after the victim came forward and said she had been assaulted by Green around 20 times.

A jury was selected to begin trial on the case in 2023, according to records, but two days after the jury was seated, it ended up getting dismissed because of a missing witness, records show.

Then in April 2024, Green was charged with tampering with a witness connected to the 2021 case, according to records, but that charge also got dismissed.

Court records show prosecutors filed another charge related to the same sexual assault allegations in Oct. 2024, appearing ready to move forward with the case for a second time, but then dismissed it again due to a missing witness in June 2025.