Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault in connection with an incident in 2004.
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania issued an arrest warrant for the seventy-eight year old comedian for an alleged sexual assault that happened more than a decade ago.
He will face an aggravated indecent assault charge, a first-degree felony charge. It's the first criminal charge against Mr Cosby for his conduct against women.
Andrea Constand, who was an employee at Temple University at the time of the alleged assault, claimed that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home in January 2004.
A district attorney declined to press charges in 2005, however at a press conference today the district attorney's office said that new information came to light this year in the case.
Montgomery County first assistant district attorney Kevin Steele said that “reopening this case was our duty as law enforcement officers."
More than 50 women have come forward with claims that Cosby had drugged, and in numerous cases, sexually assaulted them in incidents dating back decades.
Mr Cosby has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and had never been criminally charged.
