A man wanted in connection with a home invasion and brutal rape in Poinciana Monday was arrested in Kissimmee.



Kissimmee police arrested Danny Delgado Cruz, 29, around 7 p.m. Thursday.



The Polk County Sherriff’s Office said detectives were already on their way to interview him.



Earlier, Sheriff Grady Judd identified his brother, Richard Cruz, as a suspect in an armed home invasion and sexual battery where the suspects used bleach to try and destroy possible evidence left on the victim.



The brother was already under arrest.

According to Judd, the two men went out that night "looking for random opportunities to rob and steal." They had a gun and the other a gun and a machete, the sheriff said.

Investigators zeroed in on the brothers after a report of a stolen pick-up truck. Turns out Cruz called in that report himself, along with his girlfriend. Deputies say the girl finally told the truth and said the brothers called her after the attack.



“Richard called her up, and said, ‘hey we need a ride home, something's bad happened,” Judd said.



Inside the truck, detectives discovered crucial evidence linking the brothers to the crime.



Deputies were able to nab Richard Cruz at the girlfriend's home. But Danny escaped through the back door.



Judd calls attack ‘horrific’

Judd said that at around 11 p.m., the men approached a 20-year-old man who was talking on the phone to his girlfriend outside a home in the area of Puffer Court and Halibut Road.

The suspects took the men inside, robbed the man's parents and sexually battered his mother, Judd said. They took $400 or $500 and some jewelry and, before leaving, "a complete body wash of the victim with bleach," the sheriff said.



"This was so outrageous, so horrific, it should stir the inner soul of everyone in our community," Judd said. "They take her into another room and with a gun to her head, while the son and father are tied up, and viciously sexually battered her. They changed places and the other suspect viciously, sexually battered her."



Rey Colon takes daily walks around the neighborhood with his wife and daughter.

He said he can't even imagine having something like this happen to them.

"Wow. I know you see that in movies and so on but never, never hear about it close-by our neighborhood and family. I do really feel for them and so on. Wow. It's really scary," said Colon.



Others say the crime is out of character for their neighborhood.

"Nothing has happened like this before. Nothing. Usually you've got nice neighbors, everybody used to be nice, saying 'Hi' and drive by. Now it's just crazy." said neighbor Antoine Jackson. "We're just so scared. So terrified."