The Boston Globe
WESTBOROUGH, New Jersey -- A routine traffic stop in a New Jersey town helped lead authorities to an illegal immigrant from Brazil who was charged yesterday with raping women in two states, including an eight-day rampage west of Boston in 2003 that terrorized several women, officials said.
Marcelo G. Mota is being held in a New Jersey jail on $1 million cash bail on charges of raping a New Jersey woman in September 2005 and two Westborough women in August 2003, authorities said.
He also is charged with attacking a Hopkinton woman, who fought him off before she was sexually assaulted. He confessed to the crimes in both states after his arrest, authorities said. It is unclear when Mota will return to Massachusetts to face the charges.
Posted by tyne at July 17, 2007