Orange Man Charged in Jersey City Sexual Assault

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A man was arrested Thursday for sexually assaulting a woman in Jersey City last month, prosecutors said.

Franklin Martinez, 46, of Orange, was arrested by members of the United States Marshals Service and the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on Thursday.

Prosecutors say that around 7 p.m. on Oct. 17, a woman repotted to police that a man had followed her for several blocks before sexually assaulting her on Wallis Avenue.

Martinez was charged with second-degree sexual assault and third-degree aggravated assault, prosecutors said. He was also processed as a fugitive from justice from New York, prosecutors said.

He was taken to the Hudson County Correctional Facility to await his first court appearance, prosecutors said.