A woman is recovering from a frightening attack at the Linthicum light rail station. Anne Arundel County Police say a man with a history of sex offenses is back behind bars.

Forty-nine year old Eugene Waller is charged with raping the woman. Police say well after the attack, the victim was able to go get help by swimming in the Patapsco River and back to the light rail station from where she was taken.

Anne Arundel County Police say the attack happened Tuesday (10/09), in the middle of the day. The woman was dragged from a bench and raped at the Nursery Road rail station. Investigators say Waller walked right up to the woman around 2:30 p.m. and tried to strike up a conversation.

The woman managed to break free, and she told officers she swam in the Patapsco River back to the train station to get away, then she flagged down a passing car and called police.

Officers say Waller also fled to the Patapsco River where officers finally found him and arrested him. He faces charges of rape and kidnapping, but police say this is just the latest in a long string of similar arrests.

According to Anne Arundel County Police, Waller was registered as a violent sex offender. He was mistakenly left off the state's registry, despite his record of violent sex crimes.

Waller was recently accused of exposing himself in a light rail car, but that case was dismissed last week on a technicality.