Boston Serial Sexual Assault Suspect Held on $250K Bail

A man charged in connection with four separate sexual assaults in Boston was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail at his arraignment on Thursday.

Stevent Lent, 26, of Allston, was arraigned in Suffolk County Superior Court following his indictment for four separate sexual assaults between August 2014 and May 2015. All of the assaults took place near the Brighton Avenue apartment where Lent lived at the time.

The first assault occurred around 7:25 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2014, in the area of 39 Brighton Ave. The suspect fled on foot after the victim screamed and took a picture of him on her cell phone.

Less than an hour later, the suspect allegedly assaulted a second woman in the area of Quint and Brighton avenues and again fled when the victim screamed. A surveillance camera captured the then-unidentified assailant drinking from a water bottle and then discarding it in the area of Brighton and Quint avenues just prior to the assault. Detectives were able to retrieve that bottle and produce a DNA profile of the assailant.

According to prosecutors, Lent assaulted another woman shortly after 5:20 p.m. on May 4 in the area of Chester Street. He fled when the victim attempted to punch him. A fourth victim was assaulted on Commonwealth Avenue at approximately 7 p.m. that same day.

Boston University Police provided Boston Police detectives with surveillance images that were used to identify Lent as the assailant in the May 4 attacks and he was then linked to the earlier assaults through additional video, witness descriptions, and physical evidence.

Detectives were able to match DNA found on the water bottle recovered near the scene of the second assault to that on a cigarette Lent was observed discarding on May 19, prosecutors said. He was arrested later that day.