By Carol Tannenhauser
Juan Garcia, 24, of the Bronx was arrested Saturday and charged with the assault of an unidentified, 55-year-old woman who was walking on the popular path around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, on April 6th.
Garcia had attempted to engage the woman in conversation and, when she ignored him, allegedly dragged her off the path and banged her head against a tree multiple times, the police report said. She was taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and bruises to her face.
“Police used surveillance video to track the suspect as he bicycled out of the park and headed to the E. 86th St. and Lexington Ave. subway station,” an NYPD source told the Daily News. A sketch was made from the video, which was published on a wanted poster. “A Brooklyn cop recognized Garcia’s face in the poster [as a man] he had arrested in East New York for snatching a bottle of liquor.”
A judge ordered Garcia held on $50,000 cash or $100,000 bond.
Good. A recognized recidivist needs to be held without bail.
I am glad that he wasn’t simply released so as to keep him out of Rikers.
Extraordinary police work. Resides in the Bronx and recalled from a drawing for a past Brooklyn arrest.
Good cops…bad cops. That’s a good cop.
Which the overwhelming majority of cops are!
Good work NYPD
Cuff him and stuff him
Book him Dano
Put him in and throw the key away
This tells me how important it is, even if it feels futile at times, to report all crimes. Since those small crimes of “perceived poverty” (stealing a liquor bottle) might be what is needed to get pictures or DNA registered where our police can ultimately catch recidivist criminals. We used to call it Broken Window policing. Clearly it can work. Thank you NYPD!
Excellent police work! To those that push defund the police (hello AOC) this is just one example of why that notion is idiotic (there are plenty more). This guy could have also avoided being caught except that his criminal behavior couldn’t be avoided—more evidence that he shouldn’t be on the street!
To be fair, that imbecilic slogan refers to the idea of allocating some PD funding to a separate but coordinating social services organization, which would allow the police to focus on fighting crime rather than managing episodes of mental illness. Sounds reasonable to me.
Chris, 99% of people in dangerous neighborhoods want MORE police, not less. Wake up.
This is outstanding police work. Amazing follow thru. Now it’s up to the political class to STOP allowing criminals like this to skip out. Clearly, his behavior will only get worse. Stop it now.
Yes, NYPD were proactive and did an outstanding job. Now we just need local politicians to follow this example.
Another detail/action that might have been a massive help to the cops: for the first time in my life, I saw WANTED 2 signs hanging along the reservoir. They’d been there for the past couple of weeks and, in fact, today (Monday) they were still up. One was on the southern pumphouse. The other was on the fence, on the south side of the rez. The drawing of the alleged assailant was on both.
Good police work !