Alleged Boston rapist is a Massachusetts state employee, court records show
The man charged with multiple sexual assaults within an hour in the greater downtown Boston area is a Massachusetts state employee who also “travels around” the country as a salesman, according to court records.
Solomon Wambui, 25, was arraigned Monday on a charge of rape and a charge of attempted rape. The first allegedly occurred on the first block of Cortes Street in Bay Village and the second, the attempted rape, allegedly occurred in or around Eliot Norton Park approaching the Theater District.
On Thursday Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott found him dangerous and ordered him held in jail at least through February when the order expires.
In court documents, Wambui’s employment record is listed as “employed by commonwealth” with an additional handwritten note indicating that he “travels around US as salesman” as justification for his passport needing to be handed over before his release if he is able to post bail.
State payroll records list only one Solomon Wambui. He is listed as a part-time employee of the Department of Developmental Services with an annual base pay of $39,745 and earned a total of $68,454.61 through last year.
The Department of Developmental Services, according to its website, “provides support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder to enhance opportunities to become fully engaged members of their community.”
Neither the department nor Gov. Maura Healey’s office returned Herald requests for comment on Wambui’s arrest or his current employment status.
Additionally, the Herald has learned that Wambui is a “recently naturalized U.S. citizen.”
Police arrested Wambui sometime before 6 a.m. in the 200-block of Tremont Street, not far from Eliot Norton Park where his second alleged victim that early morning told police she first “became aware of a male behind her” who then came at her like “he was on a mission, like a dog coming to get you.”
The victim told police he caught up to her, grabbed her by the waist, put a hand over her mouth and groped her under her skirt as she contorted herself against the assault.
Police noted in their report that as they approached Wambui and his alleged victim, “officers observed the SUSPECT’S pants to be unzipped.”
Police were already canvassing the area for a suspect, identifiable by his “small build” and short-sleeved “tan Hawaiian shirt,” of a forcible rape less than a half-mile walk away in front of a residential address in the first block of Cortes Street in the Bay Village area.
The alleged victim in that horrific encounter said that she was on the phone with her mother as she walked at around 4:30 a.m. to get back to her car after dropping a friend off in Bay Village when the man police say is Wambui approached her and wouldn’t leave her alone.
He followed her against her protests that he “go away,” she told police, until around 17 Cortes St. when he allegedly “grabbed her from the front of her neck and then from behind dragging her down to the ground,” according to the report, and forcibly raped her.
Boston rape defendant Solomon Wambui as seen in a court scan of his booking photograph and his “Findings” document. (Boston Municipal Court)