Acting on a tip, the Cambridge Police Department last week arrested a homeless man, charging that he raped a city woman last Monday.
Louis Bruno, 20, was arraigned late last week, and is now in a Middlesex County jail cell.
Police said that Bruno first spotted the young woman, whom he did not know, in Harvard Square around noon Monday morning.
Later that day, he followed her as she walked toward Central Square. At the corner of Pearl and Magazine streets, he grabbed her from behind, dragged her into a nearby building, and raped her, police said.
The woman, who was not affiliated with Harvard University, gave police a detailed description of the man who attacked her--including the type and style of clothes he wore.
A citizen, who police would not identify, called detectives on Wednesday to report that a man matching the suspect's description was seen loitering around the same intersection the rape occurred last Wednesday.
CPD detective John Poirier and a patrol sergeant, Joseph McSweeny, quickly drove to the area.
When they arrived, they saw Bruno, and "had a short discussion with him," said CPD spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello.
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