The Pershing County Sheriff's Office arrested a Southern California man on four counts of sexual assault and rape and one count of burglary on the last day of Burning Man.

Alessandro Boshant, 34, was arrested after a female reported on Sept. 1 that she had been sexually assaulted, Sheriff Jerry Allen said in a news release.

Allen said the victim gave a detailed description of the male suspect. Law enforcement searched Black Rock City and arrested Boshant.

His bail was set at $640,000.

Allen previously told the RGJ that he worries about underreported cases of sexual assault at Burning Man . He said the event presents challenges to investigators as people from all over the world, often in costumes and known only by playa nicknames, congregate in the remote desert.

The sheriff's office

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