Dorchester Man Arrested For Weekend Attacks On Women
BOSTON (CBS) - A man was charged Monday in two attacks on women over the weekend in Dorchester, as police announced they are investigating a third incident.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis announced the arrest of 31-year-old Walter Mains of Dorchester for the reported assaults on Harbor View Street and the Savin Hill area early Sunday morning.
"I can tell you he's a very dangerous person. He's had a prior history of similar types of assaults," said Commissioner Davis.
In the first incident just before 2 a.m. Sunday, a woman reported being accosted by a man near the Savin Hill T stop, but he ended up escaping.
WBZ-TV's Jim Smith reports.
Just 30 minutes later, a different woman reported being raped near the station. Mains has not been charged in that rape.
Then at 3 a.m. near the corner of Harbor View Street and Dorchester Avenue, a woman reported an indecent assault and attempted rape.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz reports
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Davis said Mains is charged with attempted rape, assault and battery, indecent assault and battery and accosting in connection with the first and third incidents.
After his arraignment Monday afternoon, Mains was ordered held on $50,000 bail.
