A 42-year-old man was arraigned today in the Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court on charges that he allegedly sexually assaulted a female employee of a Washington Street hotel earlier this month, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

LEONARD HALL (D.O.B. 2/16/68), a homeless man living in Boston, was charged with assault with intent to rape, indecent assault and battery, and assault and battery, all in connection with a May 9 incident at the DoubleTree Boston Hotel.

Assistant District Attorney David Deakin, chief of Conley’s Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau, in requesting that Hall be held on $250,000 cash bail, said that “the defendant is somebody without regard for the law and the personal and physical integrity of the person he assaulted.”

District Court Judge Edward Redd imposed a bail of $75,000, and ordered that should he make bail, Hall stay away from both the victim and the hotel where the incident occurred.

Deakin told the court that, a 41-year-old female employee of the hotel was cleaning a bathroom in a fifth-floor room at about noon on May 9 when she heard the door leading out of the room suddenly close.

A man – later identified as Hall –walked into the bathroom area where she was working. When she asked him what he wanted, he put his hand around her waist and then sexually assaulted her. The victim tried to get away, Deakin said, and she began screaming for help. Hall allegedly slammed the victim’s hand in the door before fleeing the room. A male employee who heard the victim’s screams followed Hall as he tried to exit the hotel. When he and a second male employee confronted Hall and tried to detain him after calling Boston Police, Hall allegedly threatened, “I’m going to sue” before leaving the hotel, Deakin said.

Hall allegedly fled to the Tufts New England Medical Center MBTA train station, where he boarded a train and left the scene before police arrived.

Boston Police detectives obtained video surveillance footage from both the hotel and, with the assistance of MBTA Transit Police, the MBTA station. A comparison of Hall, the individual depicted in the security footage, and the subject described by the victim and two witnesses “clearly established that it was the same individual,” Deakin said.

Information obtained during the course of the investigation led investigators to search Boston homeless shelters for the suspect. Employees of a local shelter were able to provide detectives with the defendant’s name and location. Following an interview with detectives, Hall was arrested and his booking photo was placed in a photo array. The victim and both witnesses positively identified Hall as the assailant, Deakin said.

Hall was represented by attorney Michael Roitman. He is scheduled to return to court on June 22 for a probable cause hearing.