Police sources say two men threatened a 22-year-old woman with a knife and forced her into the basement of a home on Ward Avenue before she was raped.<\/p>\n
\tThe incident happened just after 4 p.m. Sunday next to the Masjid Darul Iman Mosque. In video from the scene, you can see officers coming in and out of the home loading paper bags of evidence onto a crime scene unit van.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the NYPD, the victim was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. She’s expected to be OK.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to NYPD data, in the area of the 43rd precinct rapes are up 71 percent. This time last year there were 31 reported, right now there are about 54.<\/p>\n
\tPolice do not have a description of the men wanted. Anyone with information is urged to call the Crime Stoppers hotline immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police sources say two men threatened a 22-year-old woman with a knife and forced her into the basement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092","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=42092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}