The authorities in Florida have arrested a man they believe is responsible for the deaths of at least four women over the past decade.

The police in Palm Beach County arrested Robert Hayes, 37, at his home in West Palm Beach on Sunday and charged him with the strangulation of Rachel Bey, 32, whose body was found near a highway in West Palm Beach in March 2016.

His DNA was also linked to two unsolved killings of women in Daytona Beach in 2005 and 2006, with forensic evidence tying him to a third, the Daytona Beach Police Department said. The police said in a statement that he had not been charged in those killings, but that they expected to charge him soon.

“We believe we took a serial killer off the streets,” Michael Wallace, the captain of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, said at a news conference on Monday.