{"id":52020,"date":"2025-11-25T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52020\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:42:07","slug":"handsy-wacko-attacks-3-women-during-5-minute-spree-in-hipster-brooklyn-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52020\/","title":{"rendered":"Handsy wacko attacks 3 women during 5-minute spree in hipster Brooklyn: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unhinged man attacked three women \u2014 two of them outside a yeshiva \u2014 in a random Williamsburg spree late Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Narvaez, 22, allegedly first targeted a 19-year-old woman who was walking home on Heyward Street near Lee Avenue, slapping her on the buttocks around 9:25 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Narvaez then walked about four blocks to Bedford Avenue near Hewes Street, where he allegedly attacked his next two victims about five minutes later in front of a yeshiva, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He came up behind one woman and slapped her on the side of her face, and scratched another on her back around 9:30 p.m., according to cops and one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The slapped victim, Rachel Paskes, told The Post she was simply walking on the street and talking on the phone when she was clobbered on the right side of her face.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37763949\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aaScreenshot-2025-11-25-at-100330\u202fAM-2.jpg\" alt=\"A stone synagogue with Hebrew text above its three arched entranceways, a large round stained glass window, and a street with parked cars in front.\" class=\"wp-image-37763949\"  \/>Narvaez allegedly attacked two of his victims in front of a yeshiva on Bedford Avenue near Hewes Street, cops said.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came from the back without me seeing anything,\u201d Paskes told The Post by phone Tuesday. \u201cThe hit was so hard, I didn\u2019t know what I was feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the back, he slapped my right ear,\u201d she added. \u201cMy phone went dead from the force of the slap. That\u2019s how hard he hit\u2026.My ear became numb and red.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one ran after Narvaez, who bolted after the senseless assault, according to Paskes.<\/p>\n<p>But Narvaez\u2019s escape didn\u2019t last long, as he was arrested about a half-mile away around 10:15 p.m. and charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has no prior arrests, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Williamsburg365\/status\/1993154256392921280\" rel=\"nofollow\">by Williamsburg 365 News<\/a> shows both the NYPD and the Williamsburg Shomrim Safety Patrol descending on the scene as Narvaez was led away in cuffs.<\/p>\n<p>The string of attacks comes less than two weeks after Anthony Caines, 45, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/22\/us-news\/serial-spitter-still-on-the-loose-after-arrest-for-hate-fueled-aggravated-harassment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly spat on three women<\/a> in the same neighborhood during a two-day sickening spree, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was granted supervised release because none of the incidents resulted in a felony charge, which would\u2019ve kept him in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhinged man attacked three women \u2014 two of them outside a yeshiva \u2014 in a random Williamsburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3283,357,98,100,99,303,57,9,24,63,58,28886],"class_list":{"0":"post-52020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-yeshivas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020","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=52020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}