Police in Vernon and Manchester said Thursday they have charged a Manchester firefighter for four sexual assaults between 2001 and 2008 in Manchester and Vernon, a case that long confounded investigators.
Angelo Alleano Jr., 47, of Vernon, was taken into custody Wednesday and is being held in lieu of $5 million bail. He is to be arraigned Friday in Superior Court in Hartford.
Police obtained a warrant in 2010 for the serial rapist based upon DNA evidence recovered from the victims. The profile was not in any state or federal database, but DNA in the database of a company that provides DNA tests to help people learn about their ancestry had information that led to Alleano, police said.