Police: Fake Cop Robbed & Sexually Assaulted Woman In Queens
Authorities are looking for two suspects, one of whom allegedly flashed a badge with a police logo and forced his victim to disrobe before sexually assaulting her in her apartment.
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Authorities are looking for two suspects, one of whom allegedly flashed a badge with a police logo and forced his victim to disrobe before sexually assaulting her in her apartment.
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"I helped her, because he dragged her behind my house," Lashanda Vickers told CBS 2's John Slattery. "I heard her screaming and I grabbed one of my big kitchen knives and I came out to help her."
The most recent victim suffered lacerations to her arms and face as well as a broken ankle.
David Eidel, a Union Township, N.J. elementary school teacher, has been arrested and charged with 2nd-degree endangering the welfare of a child and 2nd-degree sexual assault.
Sources tell CBS 2 the incident took place as a 6 year old boy was leaving the bathroom at the Ancient Playground, located on the east side of the park near 85th Street.
Twenty-four-year-old Michael Monroe is charged with aggravated sexual assault, attempted sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Police say the victim was walking on Attorney Street when the suspect came up from behind and sexually assaulted her on the sidewalk.
The 23-year-old woman was followed from the bus stop at 8 p.m. along South Conduit Avenue when someone tried to sexually assault her in Laurelton Sunday.
On Friday, the NYPD was canvassing Windsor Terrace, where another sex assault bumped the total to 20 in Brooklyn since March.
Martinez allegedly grabbed a woman from behind and groped her as she was walking near 36th Street and between Fourth and Fifth Avenues early Monday morning.
Police said the sketch was produced using information from the victim of the latest attack, which took place Sunday night around midnight in Windsor Terrace.
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The man, who was wearing a dark suit, white shirt with a wide collar, followed a young woman to her apartment last Thursday on Horation and Husdon Streets and assaulted her, police said.
Police are looking for a suspect who they say robbed and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at a Long Island Rail Road station.
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Police say both attacks happened in July. In each one, the suspect goes up to a woman from behind, grabs her breast and then takes off.
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According to detectives, the suspect followed a woman into a building then into an elevator and sexually assaulted her.
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