Search On For Suspect Who Allegedly Tried To Rob, Rape Woman In Brooklyn
Police on Saturday were asking for assistance from the public in finding a suspect in an attempted rape and robbery in Brooklyn.
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Police on Saturday were asking for assistance from the public in finding a suspect in an attempted rape and robbery in Brooklyn.
Shortly before 3 a.m. on Tuesday, a 24-year-old woman was walking in the vicinity of 275 Webster Ave., when she was grabbed from behind and thrown to the ground.
Police have arrested two men in connection with the alleged rape and attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
Police in Ossining said John Azabache, a math teacher at Ossining High School, was arraigned Friday on two charges of third-degree rape. Defense lawyer Tony Castro said he pleaded not guilty and posted $50,000 bail.
Jamal Peoples, 27, was sentenced Monday by Essex County Judge Joseph C. Cassini III, after pleading guilty in March to robbery and aggravated sexual assault.
The suspect allegedly grabbed the woman from behind, threw her to the ground, and attempted to rape her but ran off when a car approached the scene.
Police were searching Tuesday evening for a suspect who tried to rape a woman in Central Park the night before.
The next thing the woman remembered was waking up in her room with her clothes off, and her cell phone missing.
According to police, Brian Kearins, 33, was arrested just after midnight on charges of rape, criminal sex act and endangering the welfare of a child. His victim was a 16-year-old girl, police said.
Police on Monday were seeking help from the public in finding a man who sexually assaulted a woman in an elevator on the Lower East Side.
"I don't sleep, I cannot eat because that beast took my life," the alleged victim's grandmother said. "He broke my heart."
Java Street is typically the type of place where neighbors spend summer nights sitting out on their stoops. But, on Saturday night a man apparently raped a woman in front of an apartment building, according to authorities.
Anthony Criscuolo, 40, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree rape, predatory sexual assault against a child, attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.
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The 44-year-old woman had said she was walking alone along Riverside Drive at West 74th Street at around 5 a.m. when a man came up from behind her and said he was a "cop and an FBI agent," according to police.
A former sixth-grade English teacher is facing jail time after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl.
Eric Dancy, 25, is also charged with assault, robbery, criminal sex act, sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment and other charges, police said.
The incident occurred shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday at 98th Street and 97th Avenue in Richmond Hill.
Jonathan Elsalam has pleaded not guilty to the rape and other charges against him. He's also facing a $10 million lawsuit filed by the student.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic man, about 5'9" or 5'10" and weighing 165 pounds with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black jeans.
A man has been charged with raping three women in separate attacks in Brooklyn this month.
There have been at least three attacks this month, police said. In each attack, the suspect strikes up a conversation with his victim, lures her to an isolated area and then rapes her, police said.
The first incident occurred on April 4, when he approached a 25-year-old woman near the intersection of Albany Avenue and Fenimore street, lured her to a parking lot and raped her, police said.
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