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Suspected Sunset Park Groper Arrested, Morningside Heights Suspect Also Collared

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(Courtesy CBS2)

Police say they've arrested the man who groped a woman in Sunset Park Monday night, but it's unclear if the man is responsible for any of the other sexual assaults that have terrorized parts of Brooklyn over the past several months. Adolfo Martinez, 26, faces charges of sex abuse in the 3rd degree, CBS 2 reports. Martinez allegedly sneaked up behind his 18-year-old victim as she left a subway station at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue around 8 p.m., groped her buttocks, and ran away.

101211sketch.jpg When the incident first made news, police sources said the perpetrator was probably not responsible for any of the other high-profile assaults, in part because he was older than the man other victims have described. But several women who have been victims of similar assaults were called in to view Martinez in lineups last night and today, the Daily News reports. In addition to Martinez, Federico Chamorro Yax, 22, was arrested last week and accused him of involvement in two sexual assaults.

Yesterday police also released two more sketches of suspects. The one seen here is based on the description given by the victim of an attack Sunday night in Windsor Terrace. In that incident, a 20-year-old woman fought off a rapist outside her mother's apartment around midnight. And yesterday police arrested Jason Harris, 19, and charged him with sexually assaulting a woman near Columbia University on Sunday. Harris allegedly exposed himself to the woman, "before forcing her to engage in a sex act and running off," NY1 reports.

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  • swampyankeesmom

    they both look like a cop.
    mustache but no sideburns, a telltale sign 

  • robingee

    The sketches are always way handsomer.

  • Ragingsemi

    Are we sure that's the guy? That sketch looks like at least 5 dudes I work with.

  • crusher153

    do you work in a restaurant or a lawn service?

  • Ragingsemi

    Restaurant. :)
    Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

  • Nacho Taco

    There is no subway station at 36th and 5th Avenue. There is one at 4th.

  • jibbly

    This guy is thankfully an idiot for showing his face in public.  There's been a massive police presence since at least last Friday all around that area with officers and cruisers stationed along 39th Street in addition to one of those surveillance vans near Greenwood Cemetery.

    Thanks, NYPD, for finally doing something in the neighborhood.  Now while you're around can you finally issue summonses to all the people that don't pick up their dog's poop?

  • whatidsay

    Thanks NYPD for doing your job.

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