Massachusetts State Troopers responded to East Road in Clarksburg on Friday evening to search for a 68-year-old male driver of a crashed pickup truck who fled into the woods.
The Berkshire District Attorney's Office's newly created Violent Crime Task Force established probable cause to arrest Copeland on two counts of aggravated rape and a single count of rape of a child.
According to a media statement from the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, a conviction was finally secured for an assault and battery case dating from 2016.
A 31-year-old Western Massachusetts man was arrested on Friday by New York State Police on charges of kidnapping and raping a woman in Beekmantown, New York.