BOSTON, Oct. 20, 2014—A Fall River man was held on $10,000 cash bail today after his arrest on sexual assault charges by Boston Police detectives investigating an incident in the North End early on Saturday morning, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

WAGNER NIETO (D.O.B. 8/10/78) was arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court on charges of assault with intent to rape and indecent assault and battery. Assistant District Attorney Erica Brody requested bail of $15,000; Judge Tracey-Lee Lyons imposed the lower amount but ordered that Nieto wear a GPS monitoring device if he posts it.

Boston Police responded to the area of Tileston and Wiggins streets just before 3:15 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a sexual assault. The victim, an adult female, reported that a man had been walking behind her and that a brief conversation ensued when she turned to acknowledge him. The man assaulted her and she struck him, at which point the man fled on foot.

A canvas of the area did not turn up the suspect, but investigators obtained surveillance imagery from the area that depicted him. Officers assigned to Area A recognized him from an encounter earlier that night in which he appeared intoxicated. They memorialized the encounter in a Field Interview and Observation report, or FIO. Using the information in that report, detectives located Nieto at his home in Fall River late on Saturday night.

At this early stage in the investigation, Nieto does not appear to match the description of the suspect in another sexual assault in the North End earlier this year.

While the victims of any crime, including sexual assault, are urged to call 911 in an emergency, survivors of sexual violence in Suffolk County may also call the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s 24-hour hotline at 800-841-8371.  The BARCC provides legal assistance, counseling, and other services to the victims of rape and sexual assault.

Nieto is represented by attorney Gerasimos Antzoulatos. He will return to court on Nov. 13.

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