The 63-year-old Queens sicko who allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy in broad daylight last week after bribing him with a potential construction job has two prior arrests \u2013 both targeting strangers in the same borough, cops said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Virgilio Taveras \u2013 who now faces a second-degree rape charge in the disturbing July 1 encounter in Jamaica \u2013 has previous busts on his record for threatening a woman with a bat, as well as punching and choking a young man until he fell unconscious, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His first brush with the law came on June 7, 2013, when he allegedly argued with a female stranger on Roosevelt Avenue and then trailed behind her while continuing to yell and wielding a gray metal bat \u2013\u00a0 making her fear for her safety, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Virgilio Taveras, 63 \u2014 now accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in Queens \u2014 has two prior arrests targeting strangers in the Big Apple, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n
Taveras was arrested and charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, on July 7, 2018, Taveras allegedly punched a 19-year-old man who is not known to him \u2014 before grabbing and pressing on his neck until he lost consciousness at the southwest corner of 37th Avenue and 111th Street, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and misdemeanor assault, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taveras has prior arrests for allegedly menacing a woman with a bat and punching and choking a teen, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n
The final disposition of those arrests is unclear, as the Queens District Attorney\u2019s Office said no information is \u201cpublicly available\u201d on those cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latest sickening attack unfolded as the 14-year-old victim walked on 171st Street near Jamaica Avenue around 1 p.m., according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taveras pulled up slowly in a silver sedan, honked several times, and offered him a job in construction if he got into the car, court documents revealed.<\/p>\n
Following the rape arrest, the NYPD is looking to determine whether Taveras has any other victims, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n
Once the boy got in, the alleged predator allegedly sped off, asked about his dating life, and told the youngster he was attractive before abruptly pulling over and assaulting him.<\/p>\n
The accused creep then slipped a $50 bill into the minor\u2019s pocket as he exited the car, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Taveras \u2014 who lives about two miles from the scene \u2014 was arrested two days later by members of the Special Victims Squad, police said.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned Friday in Queens Criminal Court on charges of second-degree rape, luring a child, forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
He was ordered held on $20,000 cash bail or $60,000 bond.<\/p>\n
The NYPD has since released the fiend\u2019s mugshot and images of the car he used to approach the young boy in hopes that any other victims will come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the NYPD\u2019s Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-RAPE (7273) or the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips can also be submitted online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 63-year-old Queens sicko who allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy in broad daylight last week after bribing him…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10762,4219,40603,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,12650,10409,3981,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-55006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-menacing","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-rape","21":"tag-sexual-assault","22":"tag-teens","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-us-news","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114830821556100016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006","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=55006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}