A serial sex offender allegedly attacked court officers and swore at the judge when he was sentenced to up to 105 years in prison for a series of home break-ins and sexual assaults. Suffolk County Judge Katie Rayburn on Tuesday sentenced 60-year-old Ronald Brown to 72 to 105 years in prison for the 2016 South End rapes and break-ins.

A sex offender convicted in a rash of home break-ins and two sexual assaults in the fall of 2016 in Boston's South End was sentenced to decades in prison Tuesday, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.