Peabody Police Assist In Arrest Man Wanted For Boston Rapes

PEABODY, MA -- Peabody and Swampscott Police assisted Boston Police in arresting Joseph Losano, 53, of Swampscott, on Tuesday afternoon. Losano was arrested at the Marriott Hotel on Centennial Drive in Peabody just after 1 pm Tuesday. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning in Roxbury Municipal Court on two counts of aggravated rape with serious bodily injury.

Police have not released many details on the incidents, other than to say that Losano "is accused of taking victims into his vehicle and later sexually assaulting them at gunpoint."

Losano is a veteran who served four tours in Afghanistan as a U.S. Air Force security police officer between 2004 and 2009. He has also deployed to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard in 2003. From 1985 to 1989 he was an active-duty Marine, serving on a Hostage Rescue and Anti-Terrorist Team.

Earlier: Swampscott Man Charged Raping 2 At Gunpoint: Boston Police

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