North Bend Police officers arrested a 23-year-old man on Monday in connection with the sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl.

According to a North Bend Police Department press release, at approximately 4:20 p.m., officers arrested Richard G. Talbert of North Bend on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, first-degree sexual abuse. A police department dispatcher said police took Talbert into custody at the North Bend Police Department following an interview with Detective Milo Arnesen.

The arrest stems from a July 9 incident, in which a woman in the 2000 block of Everett Street reported that her stepdaughter had been inappropriately touched by a man who was baby-sitting her.

Talbert, who has no previous criminal history according to a state courts spokeswoman, was taken to the Coos County jail, where he remained today on $1.75 million bail.

— Staff Writer Jessica Musicar