A Southern California man attending the Burning Man festival was arrested on rape and burglary charges , officials said.

Alessandro Boshant, 34, was taken into custody Tuesday after a fellow festivalgoer told authorities she had been sexually assaulted while attending the event held at a pop-up city in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

The woman — who reported the alleged assault Monday, the last day of the nine-day festival — provided “ a very distinct description of the male suspect, which is sometimes very difficult to obtain at a festival such as Burning Man,” Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said late Tuesday.

Investigators then searched the “remaining area” of the massive festival — which drew an estimated 70,000 attendees this year — and arrested Boshant, who Allen describ

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