Police Charge Bronx Man With Rape of North Carolina Woman The authorities arrested a man they believe followed a tourist visiting from North Carolina from a Union Square subway stop to a Bronx hotel, where he forced his way into her room and raped and robbed her before binding her with bed linens and fleeing, the police said on Friday. The man, Ivan Jones, 27, who lived less than two miles from the Howard Johnson Express Inn on Boston Road where the attack occurred, was arrested Thursday night on charges of rape, robbery, strangulation and assault, the police said. The police said a tip helped lead them to Mr. Jones. The police said the woman encountered Mr. Jones at the East 14th Street/Union Square subway stop early Wednesday and asked him for directions to her hotel. Mr. Jones offered to show her the way, saying he was headed in that direction, the police said. The woman, 33, got off the train and walked to the hotel, about a block from the subway station at West Farms Square and East Tremont Avenue. She was apparently unaware that Mr. Jones had followed her, the police said. At 4 a.m., she heard a knock on her hotel room door. She opened the door, and the police said Mr. Jones forced his way into the room; raped her; and stole her cellphone, about $50 in cash and a pair of earrings. He then tied her up with bedsheets in an effort to buy time to get away, the police said. The woman was able to describe her attacker's tattoos, including the name "Tiffany" inked on his left forearm and "Ivan" scrawled on his shoulder area, the police said. Mr. Jones, who was living on Morrison Avenue in the Bronx, was released from prison last year after serving about eight years on burglary and escape charges. In 2004, Mr. Jones, while locked up on burglary charges, escaped from the Vernon C. Bain Center, an 800-bed jail barge moored in the East River. At the time, Mr. Jones was handcuffed to another inmate in a group that was about to be transported by bus from the barge to Rikers Island. Mr. Jones wrangled out of the handcuff and ran under a Department of Correction bus. He clung to the undercarriage as the bus filled with inmates pulled away. When the bus came to a brief stop, he rolled out from underneath and walked away, correction officials had said.