A suspect has been arrested in the sexual assault of a student near the St. Catherine University campus in Minneapolis last week.
The 48-year-old man is being held on suspicion of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in the attack on a woman in her 20s near West River Parkway and 27th Avenue S., not far from the Mississippi River, early Nov. 19.
According to Minneapolis police:
The arrest of the man, who has yet to be charged, came after security officers at Regions Hospital in St. Paul received a complaint Tuesday that a suspicious man was approaching women near the parking area.
The man was detained, and Ramsey County deputies helped identify him. One of the deputies remembered a composite sketch that was released to the news media that day.
He "bore a striking resemblance to the sketch," police said in a statement.
A Minneapolis police sergeant interviewed the man before he was booked into the Hennepin County jail Thursday morning.
"It shows that sending out a bulletin does help and bad guys do get arrested," said Randy Gustafson, spokesman for the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office.
