Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers had to re-arrest a 50-year-old man convicted of rape.

The serial rapist was convicted by a jury in June but was mistakenly bonded out of the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on July 26 while awaiting sentencing, according to SPD .

“Typically, what is supposed to happen when someone is convicted, especially rape in the second degree, they’re to remain in custody, so this was clearly an error,” SPD Detective Eric Munoz told KIRO Newsradio.

Man linked to rape of woman in South Seattle

The man, whose name SPD did not provide in its news release, was investigated in a reported rape of a woman in an abandoned house in South Seattle in 2019. Detectives later referred criminal charges to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office after linkin

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