CENTRAL PARK, NY — Police have arrested a suspect accused of raping a woman in Central Park on Tuesday, New York City Police Department officials said.
According to the NYPD, 30-year-old Dereck Rivera-Deleon was arrested in connection with the Oct. 24 attack in Miami Beach in South Florida while working at a Burger King.
The arrest comes a week after the NYPD released surveillance photos of the suspect.
According to the NYPD, the 39-year-old woman was near East 66th Street and Fifth Avenue in Central Park before 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 when a man approached her, pulled out a knife, and raped her, police said.
Rivera-Deleon is now connected to other cases that happened in Central Park in 2023 and 2021, the NYPD said.
This is a developing story and may be updated. For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.
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