Alleged Rapist Saw Similar Rape Charge Dropped Last Year

Google Street View of 550 W 153rd St

An unidentified 45-year-old woman claims Taurean Williams, 25, approached her on New Year's Day in Upper Manhattan and displayed a badge, telling her he was a police detective who needed to bring her to a local station to check whether there were any warrants out for her arrest. Instead, he allegedly pulled a gun on her and raped her on the rooftop of a building at 550 West 153rd Street. Now police say Williams (MySpace?) was also arrested for raping a teenager on the same rooftop in October—but prosecutors dropped the charge.

Detectives from the Special Victims Unit recognized similarities between the rapes, and presented the most recent victim with photos, one of which included Williams, whom she identified. Police say Williams was previously arrested on October 23rd, on charges that he raped and sodomized a 17-year-old girl on the same rooftop. But according to City Room, those charges were dropped and he plead guilty to criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree for taking the girl’s cellphone. He was set to be sentenced later this month, and it's not immediately clear why the previous rape charge was dropped.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 4, 2010 5:20 PM

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blink

Just another brother exercising his civil rights.

jessecal

. . .Geez- I must be doing something wrong!

I can't even get my girlfriend to agree on a movie- and wether we should have Chinese or Italian food afterwards. . .

. . .And I graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in: COMMUNICATIONS !!

cucarachita

look at the sex offenders list and you'll see that they come in all colors -- anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial.

justthinkin

Wow, Snoop, how many times can you run that joke? Being a Taurean myself (born 4/26), I take personal offense to your implication.

Snoopy

"Being a Taurean myself" Do you go by that name?

I don't think so, But it's pretty obvious the skin color of the individuals that make up these ghetto names for their children.

Is that a joke? NO! And every time one of these low lifes from the projects that spend more time thinking up names other than the consequences of their spawn I will post that same comment. Why? Because it's obvious.

I'm a Sagittarian, do you see me naming my first born Sagittariquan, Sagittariqua, Decembron?