A suspected serial rapist from Massachusetts accused of raping two women at gunpoint 35 years ago led California Los Angeles County police officers on a car chase Thursday before being arrested.
Stephen Paul Gale, 71, was driving a Lincoln SUV while trying to get away from authorities before surrendering around 5:30 p.m., a Los Angeles Police Department source told Fox News Digital.
Stephen Paul Gale, 71, was wanted for rapes and kidnappings dating back to 1989, authorities said. (Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office)
Gale was identified and charged with four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of armed robbery of two women at a convenience store in Framingham, Massachusetts, near Boston, in 1989.
Authorities publicly identified him in connection with the crimes in May.
He lived in several other states, used aliases and had previous ties to organized crime, but efforts to locate him have so far been unsuccessful, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at the time.