A 62-year-old man is now in custody after being linked to multiple rape cases since 1997, according to the Houston Police Department.
The suspect was identified as Phillip Cerf. Houston Mayor John Whitmire, HPD Chief J. Noe Diaz, and FBI officials are set to announce his official arrest after Cerf was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault last week.
Cerf’s alleged crimes include being accused of luring a woman into his car and raping her at gunpoint in 1997. Investigators are also accusing Cerf of sexual crimes in 2009, 2013, and a 2016 rape case where a woman was raped at gunpoint in the north Houston area…