An accused rapist who was mistakenly released from a Maryland prison last month has been arrested in Louisiana, law enforcement officials said.
Ronald Lee Moore, a convicted burglar from Silver Spring, was arrested Christmas Eve in Destrehan, a town about 20 miles west of New Orleans, after a tripped security alarm foiled his attempt at burglarizing a home, St. Charles Parish sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Dwayne LaGrange said.
Moore, 40, was being held in a Louisiana prison without bail and will be returned to Maryland after he faces charges in Louisiana, LaGrange said.
Moore is charged in Maryland with first- and second-degree sex offense, unnatural or perverted practice, second-degree assault and first-degree burglary related to an Oct. 23, 1999, incident in which he allegedly broke into a woman’s Glen Burnie apartment and attacked her with a “cow prod.” The victim’s 2-year-old child was home at the time.
Moore spent about eight years in prison on burglary charges and was connected to the attack on the woman using a DNA sample on file with the FBI on an unrelated case from 2000. He was set free from the Baltimore City Correctional Center Nov. 21 because of human error even though an Anne Arundel Circuit Court judge had placed a detainer on him and ordered him held without bail, said Rick Binetti, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
“He was supposed to be delivered over there,” Binetti said of Anne Arundel’s prison. “Looks like he got in trouble, and all the warrants we put out on him worked.”
