Officers find suspect dead in bathtub
By Globe Staff
Police who wanted to arrest a man on warrants for rape, kidnapping, and assault and battery found him dead in a bathtub tonight, authorities said.
A team of Dedham and Boston police were trying to serve warrants on Carlos Hernandez, 25. They secured the area outside an apartment on President's Way in Dedham and attempted to get him to surrender peacefully, the Norfolk County district attorney's office said in a statement.
While police were still outside the apartment, water was observed running out of it. A camera inserted into the apartment revealed that Hernandez appeared dead in the bathtub.
The cause and manner of death will be established by the state medical examiner in the coming days, prosecutors said.
Hernandez allegedly coaxed a woman he did not know into his car on New Year's Eve 2005 and then attacked her. He was recently linked to that crime through DNA testing, prosecutors said.
He was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury in July.
