A New Jersey attorney was arrested this week and charged in a series of rapes and kidnappings in Boston in 2007 and 2008 after investigators used forensic genealogy to tie him to the crimes.

Matthew Nilo, 35, was arrested at his waterfront apartment building in Weehawken on Tuesday by FBI agents and police. Investigators called up and told he had a package too large to hold in the lobby, and he was arrested when he came down to retrieve it, WGBX reported.

His employer, the cyber-insurance company Cowbell, said in a statement they suspended him “pending further investigation.”

Nilo is charged with aggravated rape, kidnapping, assault with intent to rape, and indecent assault and battery, officials said on Tuesday.  The attacks took place in the area of Terminal Street, officials said which runs through an industrial  area of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood.

The attacks on four women took place on August 18, 2007; November 22, 2007; August 5, 2008; and December 23, 2008. Police said the victims reported being picked up downtown and driven to Charlestown.

Nilo, who is expected in a New Jersey court on Thursday, grew up Boston’s North End, attended college in Wisconsin, then worked in a Boston law firm for a time for attending law school in San Francisco, WCVB reported.

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[Featured image: Matthew Nilo/LinkedIn]