After over a decade-long investigation, D.C. authorities said Wednesday they arrested the elusive “Georgetown Cuddler” — a mysterious man linked to several rapes in the District and Maryland where the attacker broke into women’s homes and preyed on them while they were sleeping.
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said Ernesto Ramon Mercado, 54, of Arlington, Virginia, was arraigned Wednesday on multiple counts of felony sexual abuse in connection with five attacks in Georgetown and one in College Park, Maryland, between 2008 and 2012.
Each of the victims awoke to find a man sexually assaulting them before the assailant fled, according to court documents…