An elusive suspect wanted in at least a dozen sexual attacks across four states over the last decade was captured on Friday in Connecticut by law enforcement agents who received a tip about his whereabouts, officials said.

Officers and agents of the U.S. Marshals Service arrested the suspect, Aaron H. Thomas, at 2:15 p.m. Friday, on a street in New Haven, the police said, adding that he had ties to Virginia and a history including work as a long-haul trucker.

The long string of violence began with a gunpoint attack of a female bicyclist in Maryland in February 1997 and culminated in the rapes of two teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween night in 2009 in Prince William County, Va., according to an FBI bulletin.

In between, there were attacks in Fairfax and Leesburg, Va., in Cranston, R.I., and in New Haven, the authorities said. They added that more episodes could eventually be linked to the case. The attacker was referred to as “the East Coast Rapist.”

Thomas was charged with first-degree sexual assault, burglary and risk of injury to a minor in connection with an attack in New Haven in 2007; he was also charged as a fugitive in connection with the Virginia case, the news release said.

— From wire reports