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Man in East Coast rapes arraigned in Prince George’s Co.
UPPER MARLBORO — A Connecticut man serving multiple life sentences for a series of sexual assaults has appeared remotely in a Prince George’s County court. Aaron Thomas was arraigned Friday on charges of first-degree rape and other offenses, appearing in court via closed circuit television. Thomas is accused of being the “East Coast Rapist” for […]
Man in East Coast rapes case indicted in Maryland
UPPER MARLBORO — A Connecticut man already serving life sentences for a series of rapes and sex crimes has been indicted in Maryland. Prince George’s County prosecutors announced Tuesday that Aaron Thomas has been indicted on six counts of first-degree rape and related charges. Thomas, whom authorities have dubbed the “East Coast Rapist,” was sentenced […]
‘East Coast Rapist’ sentenced to life in prison
MANASSAS, Va. — A Connecticut man accused of being the “East Coast Rapist” in a series of assaults over more than a decade from Rhode Island to Virginia was sentenced to life in prison Friday. The three life terms, plus 80 years, imposed on Aaron Thomas of New Haven, Conn., followed his guilty plea last […]
East Coast rape suspect: Women were objects
WASHINGTON — The accused East Coast Rapist says he doesn’t know why he couldn’t stop attacking women for nearly two decades. “They were objects,” Aaron Thomas told The Washington Post in a series of telephone interviews from his jail cell in Virginia’s Prince William County. “Whoever came down the street, an object. … It’s awful. […]
Man suspected in East Coast rapes indicted in Va.
WASHINGTON — A man suspected in a series of sexual assaults up and down the East Coast has been indicted in Virginia and could stand trial this summer. A grand jury in Prince William County, Va., returned an indictment Tuesday charging Aaron Thomas with abducting three teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween 2009 and raping two of […]
Suspect in East Coast rapes pleads not guilty
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man suspected in a series of rapes along the East Coast has pleaded not guilty in a Connecticut case. Aaron Thomas appeared briefly Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court on a charge that he raped a woman in New Haven in 2007. His attorney, public defender Joseph Lopez, entered the […]
