{"id":106231,"date":"2024-07-02T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/person-of-interest-taken-into-custody-for-attempted-rape-of-central-park-sunbather-sources\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:04:01","slug":"person-of-interest-taken-into-custody-for-attempted-rape-of-central-park-sunbather-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/person-of-interest-taken-into-custody-for-attempted-rape-of-central-park-sunbather-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of interest taken into custody for attempted rape of Central Park sunbather: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-02\/GettyImages_Handcuffs_070224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>James C Hooper\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A person of interest has been taken into custody for the attempted rape of a woman sunbathing in Central Park last month, police sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not been identified, has not been charged in the June 24 attempted sexual assault of a woman, but the sources said DNA links him to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old woman was alone and sunbathing in the Great Hill section of the park when a man came toward her exposing himself around 1:30 p.m. last Monday, New York Police Department Chief of Patrol John Chell said last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She screams and gets up to run,&#8221; but &#8220;he tackles her from behind&#8221; and &#8220;tried to get on top of her,&#8221; Chell said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim fought the man off and he fled, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department released a sketch of the suspect on June 27.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James C Hooper\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; A person of interest has been taken into custody for the attempted rape of a woman sunbathing in Central Park last month, police sources told ABC News. The man, who has not been identified, has not been charged in the June 24 attempted<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/person-of-interest-taken-into-custody-for-attempted-rape-of-central-park-sunbather-sources\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}