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City News Service provided the text below for a KUSI broadcast today:
A
suspect in a series of six attacks on women in the North Park neighborhood in
recent months was reported today to have been arrested.
San Diego police
would not immediately confirm the report, but according to reports, police
arrested a man following a surveillance operation and he was booked into jail
about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday. The suspect's name was not made public.
The most recent
attack happened about 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 28. A man knocked a woman to the
ground and punched her in the face in an alley off the 3900 block of Idaho
Street, according to a San Diego police statement.
Police described
the suspect in that attack as Hispanic, 5 feet 6 to 6 feet tall and wearing a
red shirt and dark pants. The suspect ran off when the woman screamed and
several witnesses came to her aid.
On July 20, a woman
was attacked from behind and lost consciousness in the 2900 block of Lincoln
Avenue, police said. Detectives said that assault was similar to another
incident a month before and a block away.
Attempted sexual
assaults on Meade Avenue near 33rd Street and on Lincoln Avenue near Oregon
Street were reported on June 17 and June 21, respectively, according to police.
The first attack in
the series was reported on June 11 in the 3900 block of 33rd Street, according
to the police statement.
2 pm
KPBS and City News Service reported:
FROM KPBS: San
Diego police have arrested David Angelo Drake II, 23, and charged him with 19
counts of sexual battery and assault in connection with a series of attacks of
six women in North Park that began on June 11.
Drake
was arrested by detectives from the sex-crimes unit and booked into jail at
2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said at a press conference.
Police
Lt. Sandy Albrektsen said Mid-City officers and sex-crime detectives, acting on
a tip, arrested Drake at 7 p.m. Monday at Washington Street and 5th Avenue in
Hillcrest. The key tip came in after a surveillance video of a man thought to
be the suspect was released publicly on Aug. 29, the lieutenant said.
Drake
was booked into the San Diego Central Jail on six counts of assault with a
deadly weapon, six counts assault with intent to commit a felony, five counts
of battery with serious injury and two counts of sexual assault with a foreign
object, Albrektson said. His bail is set at $855,000. He will be arraigned
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
“Getting
this predator off our streets is great news,” San Diego City Council President
Todd Gloria said at the news conference. “We will have justice for the victims
of these brutal assaults.”
Six
women reported being attacked in the North Park neighborhood this summer.
The
most recent attack happened about 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 28. A man knocked a woman
to the ground and punched her in the face in an alley off the 3900 block of
Idaho Street, according to San Diego police. The suspect ran off when the woman
screamed and several witnesses came to her aid.
Drake
is African-American, 6-feet-4 and weighs 180 pounds, according to his booking
sheet. Few details are available on Drake's background, though Albrektsen said
he had "one minor case" on his record.
Chief
Zimmerman lauded the efforts of police and citizens alike.
"This
was a great result of working together with our community to help solve and
prevent crime," she said.
The
first attack in the series was reported on June 11 in the 3900 block of 33rd
Street, police said.
Attempted
sexual assaults on Meade Avenue near 33rd Street and on Lincoln Avenue near
Oregon Street were reported on June 17 and June 21, respectively, according to
police.
On
July 20, a woman was attacked from behind and lost consciousness in the 2900
block of Lincoln Avenue, police said. Detectives said that assault was similar
to another incident a month before and a block away.
North
Park residents attended several meetings with police regarding the attacks and
police officials and Gloria praised their efforts extensively in announcing the
arrest of Drake.
City
News Service contributed to this report.
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