{"id":357288,"date":"2026-09-26T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357288\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:12:47","slug":"queens-man-arrested-for-raping-woman-18-after-tying-her-up-at-knifepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357288\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens man arrested for raping woman, 18, after tying her up at knifepoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old woman was bound and raped by a man inside his Queens apartment more than a year ago, and a suspect has now been arrested, police and law enforcement sources said Friday.<\/p>\n

The victim went to meet the suspect inside his Sutphin Blvd. apartment near 116th Drive in South Jamaica<\/a>, where he attacked her around on May 12, 2025, sources said.<\/p>\n

The man threatened the victim with a knife and bound her before sexually assaulting her, according to sources.<\/p>\n

The victim was treated at a local hospital for injuries from the attack.<\/p>\n

Stephon Sanderson, 31, was arrested Thursday and charged with rape, predatory sexual assault and sexual abuse for the attack, police said.<\/p>\n

Sanderson was also charged Thursday with a 2024 attempted kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl and a kidnapping that same year of an 11-year-old girl, both in Queens, cops said. Details on those incidents were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

The suspect\u2019s first arrest in New York came on Sept. 1, when he was picked up on an out-of-state warrant for a DUI in Pennsylvania, according to police.<\/p>\n

Sanderson was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty in Queens Criminal Court<\/a> Thursday, records show.<\/p>\n

The NYPD released an image of Sanderson Friday and are asking anyone who has been victimized by him to come forward.<\/p>\n

Victims can call the NYPD\u2019s Sex Crimes Hotline at (212) 267-7273.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old woman was bound and raped by a man inside his Queens apartment more than a year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2977,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,3018,133165],"class_list":["post-357288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-kidnapping","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rape","tag-stephon-sanderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357288","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=357288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}