POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Advancements in DNA evidence led cold case detectives to arrest a suspect in a 2009 armed home invasion rape in Pompano Beach, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials announced Monday.
Wisler Marcellus, 63, was taken into custody on armed sexual battery and burglary charges late last month.
Deputies said Marcellus, then 47, “broke in through the window of an unoccupied bedroom” of a home while a 36-year-old woman and her children were inside sleeping, went into the woman’s bedroom and held a gun to her head before ordering her to stand up and then sexually assaulted her as her children slept…