NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Police have linked a suspect in a West Village sex assault from March to the attempted rape of a woman near the United Nations headquarters on the East Side last week, police said Monday.
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Police have been searching for the suspect—Carl Phanor, 28—since April, when they identified him as the man wanted for a March 27 sex assault at Pier 40 in the West Village.
In that attack, a 39-year-old woman was jogging on a path at the Hudson River Greenway when her assailant came up on a bicycle and pushed her to the ground. He then choked and sexually assaulted her before stealing her cellphone, police said.
The woman was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while the man fled on the bike. He was last seen riding the bike at West Street and Charles Lane in the West Village.
Police now believe Phanor struck again, this time trying to rape a 48-year-old woman as she walked on the FDR Drive service road, near E. 37th Street, in Murray Hill early last Thursday. The area is roughly a block south of the U.N. building.
A man came up behind the woman around 5 a.m. and put her in a chokehold. He then tried to rape her, ripping her pants as the two struggled by the service road, according to police.
The woman was able to fight off her attacker, who fled on a bicycle with her wallet and cellphone, police said. The victim refused medical attention at the scene.
About 30 minutes after the attack, a man tried to use the victim’s stolen credit card at a smoke shop at E. 7th Street and First Avenue in the East Village.
Surveillance images released Monday show the suspect, believed to be Phanor, at the shop, police said.
Phanor’s last known address is on Lafayette Street in Chinatown.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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