Two prostitutes were assaulted and robbed in Manhattan hotel rooms last week by a man responding to their online ads. Police are looking to speak to two people in the attacks.
Police say one woman was slashed in the hand and the other was choked unconscious in the separate attacks last week at the Roosevelt and Wellington hotels in Midtown. A 24-year-old who advertised on the classifieds site backpage.com was robbed of her cash and phone on April 30. She was sliced in the hand and treated at a hospital.
The second woman, who is 30 years old and advertised on Craigslist, was choked unconscious and awoke to missing money, a phone and a laptop.
Police urge anyone with information to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hot line, (800) 577-TIPS.