{"id":144608,"date":"2025-08-14T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144608\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:29:20","slug":"cops-arrest-man-accused-of-choking-trying-to-rape-woman-on-nyc-midtown-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144608\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops arrest man accused of choking, trying to rape woman on NYC Midtown street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops arrested a man early Wednesday morning who is accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/08\/12\/woman-choked-unconscious-by-stranger-on-hells-kitchen-street-who-tried-to-rape-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choking a woman and trying to rape her<\/a> on a Hell\u2019s Kitchen street.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Smith, 37, was charged with attempted rape and strangulation. According to police, he crept up behind a 21-year-old woman walking near the corner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/W+47th+St+%26+8th+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10036\/@40.7604165,-73.9874496,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c258541f45ec2d:0xca910077770d81f2!8m2!3d40.7604165!4d-73.9874496!16s%2Fg%2F11f34njz4r?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. 47th St. and Eighth Ave.<\/a> around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, clamped his arm around her neck, dragged her to the ground and choked her unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Smith then attempted to strip off the woman\u2019s clothes, but she came to and he ran off down W. 47th St. heading west toward Ninth Ave., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was was taken to Metropolitan Hospital where she was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Cops canvassing the area <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDTips\/status\/1955109617391866232\">recovered surveillance footage<\/a> allegedly of Smith, who was wearing a black T-shirt, black shorts and white sneakers. Cops released surveillance images of the suspect, in hopes that someone would recognize him.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Smith lives about four blocks away from the scene of the attempted rape.<\/p>\n<p>His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops arrested a man early Wednesday morning who is accused of choking a woman and trying to rape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-144608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115026183303515966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}