Search On For Attempted Rape Suspect In East Village
Police on Tuesday were asking the public to help them find a suspect in an attempted rape this past weekend in the East Village.
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Police on Tuesday were asking the public to help them find a suspect in an attempted rape this past weekend in the East Village.
Herman Zapata, 51, has been charged with criminal sexual act, sex abuse, sexual misconduct, unlawful imprisonment and assault.
A day after a report stated he was being investigated in an alleged sexual assault, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took to Twitter to defend himself and take issue with TMZ, which initially broke the story.
He's one of the NFL's best and brightest -- and now he's being probed by police in Florida.
The victim was near a turnstile when the suspect walked up behind her, grabbed her by the neck, covered her mouth and dragged her towards an elevator, police said. The suspect told the victim, "I just want to love you baby," police said.
Gillibrand and Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri released a bipartisan letter Friday to the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, asking for money to investigate and enforce sexual assault laws at colleges and universities.
A private school teacher surrendered to police in Greenwich, Conn. On Tuesday, following allegations that he'd had sexual contact with a child at the school.
Police on Long Island were searching Friday for a suspect who sexually assaulted a woman as she walked down a Brentwood street.
According to Metro-North police, the suspect assaulted the sleeping woman aboard the 7:35 a.m. train to New Haven. The assault occurred within view of other passengers, according to police.
A Washington Heights man has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in her East Village apartment early Monday.
Police on Tuesday night were searching for a man wanted in a home invasion and rape last month near Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
A woman told police she was was sexually assaulted by a man who appeared to be a good Samaritan returning her wallet which she had left at a fast-food restaurant.
A Brooklyn man who recently finished a prison sentence for pimping out a teenager is being sent back behind bars after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl.
South Orange police think the mid-November incident at an off-campus party was caught on cell phone video, which was then forwarded among students.
The prosecutor overseeing the investigation of sexual assault allegations against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston says it is completed.
ESPN first reported Wednesday night that Winston's DNA matched a sample taken from the underwear of the accuser. Jameis Winston's attorney said he has not seen the results of the DNA tests and found out watching television.
Around midnight on Nov. 10, a 20-year-old woman was walking near Madison Street and Patchen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when the suspect approached her from behind and dragged her into Reinaldo Salgado Park, police said.
Sources told CBS 2 that a 28-year-old woman was seen walking with a man into the park. She claims he asked her for directions, took her into the park and assaulted her.
The man pushed the 24-year-old woman into the building, beat her and then sexually assaulted her, sources said.
Glenn Mishuck, 47, of Bridgeport, was charged with 17 counts of second-degree sexual assault. Mishuck, who taught at Fairfield Ludlowe High School, was being held on $150,000 bond.
Police on Wednesday were searching two suspects in connection with the sexual assault a 16-year-old girl in East Flatbush, Brooklyn late last week.
Jason Carroll, 23, has been charged with two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, prosecutors announced.
The fear factor has been exacerbated by a recent spate of sexual assaults in the park.
The women told police they were at a house party off Hunting Lodge Road on Friday night when two men took them into the woods and sexually assaulted them.
According to police, Jaclyn P. Melillo, 25, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
