A homeless man was charged Thursday with brutal assaults on three women, one of them a stranger he allegedly dragged into a downtown basement and raped.
Brian L. Johnson, 35, known on the street as Pee Wee, has been held in the Dane County Jail since shortly after the June 7 attack on the 18-year-old woman in the basement of a tavern in the 600 block of University Avenue. Madison police announced last week that they had made an arrest in the case, but refused to name the suspect because they said it would hamper their investigation.