Suspect Charged with Rape, Attempted Rape in Mount Kisco, Purdys Attacks

PURDYS, NY — A 24-year-old who lives in Purdys but is in the country illegally has been linked to two sex attacks by DNA found in a baseball cap.

Police said Ronal Danillo Sandoval-Campos was charged with first-degree rape and attempted first-degree rape, felonies, for attacks on woman in Mount Kisco and at the Purdys train station, the Journal News reported.

The attack at the Purdys station occurred around 8 a.m. Sunday, August 21 in a corner of the station’s parking lot.

Police sent out a wanted poster describing the suspect and showing photos of the burnt orange Texas Longhorns hat.

The hat was dropped on the dirt path at the station as the suspect fled the scene.

Sandoval-Campos is due back in court October 6.

Westchester County Police said Ronal Sandoval-Campos was arrested on Sept. 9 and he was charged with sexually assaulting a Mount Kisco woman in her home in June.

The charge was first-degree rape, a felony and he was arraigned in Mount Kisco Justice Court and is being held at the Westchester County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail.

A Westchester County Police spokesman said Sandoval-Campos was accused of entering a home on West Street in Mount Kisco at 12:10 a.m. on June 3 and sexually assaulting a woman there.

Sandoval-Campos was arrested following a joint investigation with MTA Police following the Aug. 21 attempted sexual assault near the Purdys train station, a police spokesman said. DNA evidence collected in both incidents linked Sandoval-Campos to both crimes.

For more details, read the Journal News article here.

Photo caption: Ronal Danillo Sandoval-Campos. Photo credit: Westchester County Police.