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Massachusetts State Police patrols and Falmouth Police responded to the Steamship Authority in Falmouth shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday, June 7, where there was a reported sexual assault that took place on the ferry from Martha’s Vineyard to Woods Hole.
Police said that after the ferry docked at Woods Hole, the alleged victim, an 18-year-old teen, reported the sexual assault to Falmouth Police.
While the incident was being reported, the suspect, later identified as Dorchester resident Bruno Sanches Dejesus, 20, left the dock as a passenger in a commercial box truck.
A description of the truck was broadcast by police and a trooper from the Bourne Barracks located and stopped the vehicle on Route 28 in Falmouth.
Dejesus was arrested and charged with two counts of rape. He was booked and held overnight in lieu of $250,000 cash bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, June 8 in Falmouth District Court.
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