Suspect in carjacking, rape arrested

CRANSTON, R.I. -- Police on Thursday afternoon arrested a man accused of carjacking a woman in Warwick and raping her in Providence.

Saul Pizzarro-Aviles, 27, was arrested without incident in Providence.

Police said the carjacking happened Sunday night in a supermarket parking lot.

Police said Pizzarro-Aviles, who was armed with a knife, forced his way into the driver's seat of an idling vehicle in the parking lot of a supermarket on Quaker Lane. The woman was sitting in the passenger's seat.

Her mother was shopping inside the store at the time.

Police said the Pizzarro-Aviles drove the vehicle to Roger Williams Park in Providence, where he assaulted the woman. She reported that her attacker fled on foot.

The victim was treated at Rhode Island Hospital.