Action item: We may have a serial rapist in Jersey City

May have meaning two attacks on women where a similar modus operandi is used and a similar description of the attacker is given.

The first attack happened in late March near the corner of Harrison and Bergen. The attacker asked the victim for money and when she refused he put her in a choke hold, dragged her into an alley and assaulted her. He later pedaled his sorry ass away on a BMX-type bicycle. He was described as a black male, around 30 years of age, physically fit, and about 5' 7" tall.

The second attack, made near Bergen and Fairmount (McGinley Square) on Sunday has eerily similar connections. Black male, thin build, roughly 30 years of age and he too put his victim in a choke hold as the victim was entering her building. A neighbor coming upon the scene scared off the attacker who fled north on Bergen towards Montgomery after taking off his shirt and hat.

If you have ANY information that might lead to the arrest of this jackass, please contact the Prosecutor’s Office’s Special Victims Unit at (201) 915-1234 or Jersey City Police Department at (201) 547-JAIL.