A fugitive dubbed the “bad breath rapist,” who was arrested yesterday in a police sting had been working as a high-end landscaper in the area for a decade, sources told The Post Friday.
Convicted sexual predator, Tuen Kit Lee, 55, was arrested near his unsuspecting girlfriend’s $4.3 million San Francisco area mansion on Tuesday, after going on the run ahead of his rape conviction in Massachusetts 17 years ago.
Lee had been living with his partner, a wealthy florist, who Massachusetts State Police say had no clue about his violent past and thought his name was ‘Randy’.
“[Lee] was going around pruning bushes and specialty trees at high-end homes,” Quincy’s Chief of Police Mark Kennedy told The Post.
“It looks like he was doing it full-time for at least 10 years.”
Kennedy added Lee will be escorted by authorities on a flight back to Massachusetts tonight where he will face new charges, including for being a fugitive from justice.
“He’ll be booked on a warrant here,” Kennedy said, adding Lee is then expected to be arraigned in Quincy District Court on Friday.
Officers had watched Lee and the unidentified woman, whom police described as a longtime “companion,” leave her home on Tuesday, then pulled them over in a traffic stop.
Lee first gave his fake name, but later admitted to his true identity, which was confirmed via fingerprints.
“His female companion, after 15 years of being together in California, never knew who he really was,” the state police said.
Lee’s dark past saw him break into the home of a waitress who worked at his family’s restaurant in the Boston suburb of Quincy, on Feb. 2, 2005.
