Police have arrested a man they say brazenly broke into a woman’s Upper East Side apartment and raped her this weekend.
Jason Quinones, 21, of East 100th St. in Manhattan, was arrested today in the early Saturday attack, which further rattled a neighborhood already on edge from a serial groper that preyed on as many as a dozen women in recent months.
Further information on today’s arrest was not immediately available. Police say Quinones broke into the 27-year-old’s ground-level apartment through a window sometime before 5:15 a.m. Saturday and raped her before escaping through the front door.
Neighbors heard the victim screaming and found her in the hallway of her East 90th Street building without any underwear.
Quinones is charged with rape and burglary, police said.
Police don’t believe Saturday’s horrifying attack was connected to any crime pattern, but it comes on the heels of a wave of women getting groped in the Upper East Side.
An 18-year-old Queens man was arraigned Wednesday on charges stemming from a rash of 12 sexual attacks spanning eight months.
Police charged Jose Alfredo Perez Hernandez, 18, a former Upper East Side dishwasher from Queens, with three of the incidents.
Authorities are trying to connect the pint-sized man with more of the attacks, but at least four of the victims failed to pick him out of a lineup.