An illegal immigrant was arrested on a citizen’s arrest and taken into police custody after he allegedly kidnapped two teenagers in a New York City park. Sexual assault One of them.
Last Thursday around 3:30 p.m., two 13-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were playing together in Kissena Park in Queens when they were suddenly approached by a man armed with what police later described as a “large machete-style knife.”
He showed up the following morning at about 1am and police quickly arrested him, holding his head and binding his legs with a belt until police arrived.
Armed with his weapon, the man forced the girls to walk further into the park into the woods, where he took their mobile phones, tied them with shoelaces and raped them, telling them to stay there for 20 minutes before fleeing.
The boys managed to escape custody and returned to the school where they reported the attack, after which the school contacted police.
Victims also provided a detailed description of their attacker, describing him as a Hispanic man in his 20s with curly dark hair, braces and a tattoo of a bull or boar with horns on his chest.
Officers then took photos of the suspect on his bike and posted them on fliers and on social media in the hopes that someone would recognize him.
Old-fashioned police work paid off: Residents realized he was living in an immigrant shelter and made plans to arrest him when the opportunity arose.
On Monday night, “six good Samaritans” sat and waited for the suspect. Wab According to reports, he showed up the following morning around 1 a.m. and police quickly arrested him, holding his head and binding his legs with a belt until police arrived.
The man was taken into police custody and transported to a nearby hospital for minor injuries he sustained while in custody.
The man was later identified as Christian Giovani Landi, a 25-year-old Ecuadorian national who entered the United States illegally in June 2021. In the past three years, he had received several transit summonses but had no prior arrests. ABC News It’s unclear whether ICE has issued a detention order against him.
At this time, Lundy is only considered a “material suspect” in the park rape case, but photos of him walking shirtless with officers show him sporting a large animal tattoo on his chest. Charges are pending against the suspect.
NYPD Chief of Operations Kaz Daughtry claimed the victims were “extremely helpful” in the search for the suspect. “The sketches these brave kids provided were invaluable,” Daughtry said.
“The city’s response has been a firm ‘no’ to this heinous crime.”
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