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.

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