A man who detectives say sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint after breaking into her home in Pompano Beach 16 years ago has been arrested based on new testing of DNA evidence from the attack, the Broward Sherriff’s Office announced Monday.

Wisler Marcellus, 63, was arrested on Oct. 28 and is being held in the Broward Main Jail on charges of sexual battery with a weapon and armed burglary stemming from the June 19, 2009, attack.

A man wearing a mask and gloves broke in through a window into a 36-year-old woman’s home in the 600 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue about 3:30 a.m. while she and her two infant children slept in the master bedroom together, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday in a news release announcing the arrest. She awoke to the man holding her at gunpoint. The children slept

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