{"id":216470,"date":"2026-05-01T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216470\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:22:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-police-release-images-of-man-wanted-in-flatlands-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216470\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Police Release Images Of Man Wanted In Flatlands Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking for help finding a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Flatlands.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident happened around 5 a.m. on April 16 near East 56th Street and Mill Lane, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators tell us an 18-year-old woman was inside a building when she was sexually assaulted by a man she did not know. She was able to get away and later went to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have released surveillance images of the person they are trying to identify. In one image, he is seen inside a store wearing a black hat. In another, he is walking across a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators hope someone will recognize him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">So far, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Sex Crimes Hotline or Crime Stoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for help finding a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Flatlands. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}