A 59-year-old man was held on $100,000 bail following his arraignment on charges in connection with the rape of a woman more than three decades ago.

Darell Lavoie is charged with aggravated rape, rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and breaking and entering, said Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker’s office in a statement.

The charges against Lavoie stem from an incident on Nov. 12, 1991, where, prosecutors say, a woman who had returned home from her morning job was blindfolded and raped at knifepoint by a man who had been waiting in her home.

Members of the Massachusetts State Police Unresolved Case Unit began reinvestigating the case and analyzing previously collected evidence earlier this year.

Assistant Essex District Attorney Jessica Strasnick said the victim

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