Police in Opelika, Ala. on Thursday afternoon arrested a man wanted for an April 24 rape in Brookhaven.
Roberto Gaona-Pina, 39, was arrested at a convenience store by officers responding to a suspicious person call that matched his description, Brookhaven police said. Opelika police had been distributing his photo to residents in the area.
Gaona-Pina is being held by the Lee County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office pending his extradition to Georgia.
Gaona-Pina was charged with rape and aggravated assault in connection with an attack of a woman along Buford Highway, according to police. They said she was walking near North Cliff Valley Way when a man grabbed her, pulled her into the woods and assaulted her.
She was hit in the face several times and forcibly raped, police said.
Police identified Gaona-Pina as a suspect and said they believed he might be in Alabama.
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