MIAMI (WSVN) - A suspected rapist is off the streets.

Police arrested 24-year-old Luis Felipe Gonzalez over in Lee County, Monday.

The assault happened along Northwest 37th Avenue and First Street in Miami, just before 5 a.m. on Feb. 27.

According to the 80-year-old victim, she was in the area when the suspect approached her from behind, dragged her and forcefully sexually assaulted her behind a building.

After the attack, the victim fled to a nearby business and called 911.

Gonzalez is facing charges of sexual battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, lewd and lascivious exhibition against a person over 65 and abuse of the elderly or disabled adult.

Gonzalez is in the process of being extradited back to Miami.

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