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A 37-year-old man accused of confining a woman in her Stonebridge apartment for more than 12 hours and sexually assaulting her has a prior criminal record, including assaulting a police officer with a weapon and escaping custody.

According to Saskatoon police, officers responded to a call on Tuesday around 7:30 a.m., after a 21-year-old woman described an assault and confinement. She told police she was in her apartment in the 100 block of Wellman Crescent on Monday around 5 p.m. when a man she didn’t know knocked on her door and asked to use her phone. After she refused, the man forced his way into her home and sexually assaulted her.

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She told police Tuesday morning that she was able to escape from her apartment to call for help and that the man might still be inside.

Joseph Simon Peter Yaremko was arrested at the woman’s home without incident.

His neck and face covered in tattoos, Yaremko made his first appearance Thursday morning in Saskatoon provincial court, charged with sexual assault and forcible confinement. He was remanded until his next scheduled appearance on June 15.