NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Police have arrested a man they say dragged an 11-year-old girl into a Queens alleyway in a violent, "sexually motivated" robbery last weekend.
Jonathan Perez, 34, was arrested Thursday and faces charges of robbery, assault, kidnapping, menacing, and acting in a manner injurious to a child after the horrifying Sunday morning attack.
WANTED for Robbery: on Sunday July 25, 2021 at Approx. 8:25 A.M. in the vicinity of 86th Ave. and Northern Blvd @nypd115pct a unknown male approached a 11 year old girl from behind, put a unknown object to her neck, dragged her to an alley way and removed her property pic.twitter.com/EIKdoaqGSy
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) July 28, 2021
Police said the girl was walking to a grocery store in Jackson Heights around 8:45 a.m. when a man grabbed her by the throat, removed her mask and dragged her into an alleyway near 86th Street and Northern Boulevard.
The man held the girl to the ground and pressed a sharp metal object against her throat while making threatening sexual statements and demanding to know her age, police said.
The man then stole the girl's house keys, $20 and a reusable grocery bag, according to police.
The girl suffered a laceration to her throat and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital.
Sources told the New York Post that Perez, of Queens, was arrested just last month for robbery after allegedly punching his girlfriend and stealing her car keys.
