A man was arrested Sunday in connection with the sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in Lauderdale Lakes early Friday morning, deputies said.
John Isom, 50, faces charges of sexual battery on a person 18 years of age or older, false imprisonment and battery on a person 65 years of age or older. He was held in the Broward Main Jail as of Monday afternoon.
Deputies were called to the area of Northwest 50th Avenue and Northwest 34th Street in Lauderdale Lakes just before 5 a.m. Friday, after multiple witnesses saw Isom on top of the woman who was calling out for help, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday.
The woman told deputies who arrived at the intersection that a man she did not know threw her onto the ground and sexually assaulted her, the Sheriff’s Office said. The man, later identified as Isom, ran away afterward.
Special Victims Unit investigations found Isom, who is homeless, in Plantation and arrested him there after canvassing multiple areas, according to BSO.
Court records were not available Monday afternoon.
Florida Department of Corrections records show Isom was released from prison in 2019 after serving a felony battery sentence for a previous case in Broward County from 2015.
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