At his arraignment yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, Marcus Colono, 33, of Cambridge, was formally charged in connection with Rapes of two Boston college students in 2008. He was charged with four counts of Aggravated Rape, two counts of Assault & Battery with a Dangerous Weapon, Home Invasion, and Armed Robbery.
At his arraignment, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office alleges that, in 2008, Colono broke through the apartment door of two female college students in Brighton, tied them up and raped both women while threatening them with a knife.
Although Boston Police had obtained DNA evidence from those rapes, the case had gone unsolved until a Suffolk County Grand Jury ordered him to submit a DNA sample, which ultimately matched the DNA taken from one of the females. That DNA sample was also matched to the brutal Cambridge Home Invasion for which Colono had already been charged.
In the Cambridge incident this past August, Colono allegedly raped an 11 year old boy and brutally assaulted the boy’s father. See BostonCriminalLawerysBlog Post of 11/05/10. In that incident, Colono has already been indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on two counts of Rape of a Child by Force; Home Invasion; and Armed Assault to Murder.
Colono was initially linked to the Cambridge Home Invasion when Cambridge Police purportedly matched a bloody handprint found on the wall to Colono’s handprints, which were on file since 1998 from previous Drug Crimes.
Marcus Colono is the older brother of Michael Colono who was stabbed by Alexander Pring-Wilson in 2003, a Harvard University student at the time.
Following his arraignment yesterday, Colono was held on $1,000,000 cash bail.
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