Anthony Lett

BEREA, Ohio -- A man wanted in the violent attack of a Cleveland couple was arrested here Saturday by police investigating reports of guns stolen from a gun show.

Berea Police confirmed Anthony Lett, 39, was taken into custody during their investigation into two theft reports from the gun show at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.

But police would not say whether Lett was suspected of stealing the guns.

Officers from Berea and the Cleveland MetroParks, aided by a police dog, searched a wooded area between the fairgrounds and Southwest General Hospital on Bagley Road Saturday afternoon.

Several police cars were also parked outside the hospital.

Berea police would not discuss the details of the thefts or Lett's arrest, citing an open investigation. Police may release more information Monday.

Lett's arrest came hours after police in Cleveland obtained a warrant charging him with rape and aggravated robbery in an April 24 attack in which a woman was raped and her husband was shot.

Two other attackers, a man and woman, have not been identified.

Lett and the others went into the couple's East 127th Street home and ordered them upstairs at gunpoint, according to court records.

The assailants asked the couple "where's the money," records say, and demanded credit cards.

Lett took off the woman's clothes and forced her downstairs into the basement, where he raped her, according to court records.

Upstairs, the other two assailants shot the husband multiple times, court records say.

Lett lives on the same block as the couple, according to court records.

Lett was released from prison in January on weapons and drug charges. He previously served nine years in prison for a 2003 carjacking.

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