{"id":177374,"date":"2026-04-27T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177374\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:34:08","slug":"5-sought-after-men-sexually-assault-victims-in-chinatown-spa-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177374\/","title":{"rendered":"5 sought after men sexually assault victims in Chinatown spa \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law enforcement officials are on the hunt for five men after, police claim, they — along with another teen who was apprehended — forced their way into a spa in Philly’s Chinatown neighborhood and sexually assaulted victims there on Saturday. <\/p>\n

According to police, the incident happened at about 4:40 a.m. on Saturday when six men — all believed to be in their late teens to early 20s — forced their way into a spa located along the 400 block of North 9th Street and then robbed and sexually assaulted several victims there. <\/p>\n

When police arrived, officials said, the suspects fled to the roof of the property. <\/p>\n

One man, Saidakhmad Bakiev, 18, of Northeast Philly, was apprehended on the rooftop as he attempted to flee the scene, officials said. <\/p>\n

Bakiev has been charged with aggravated assault, rape, burglary, robbery, false imprisonment, sexual assault and related offenses. <\/p>\n

Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at\u00a0800-656-4673<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police are on the lookout for five other individuals, who they believe are of Russian or Central Asian descent and they claim were also involved in this incident. <\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police are seeking these five men after, officials claim, they sexually assaulted victims at a spa in Philly’s Chinatown section on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia are asking anyone who may have information on this incident to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Special Victims Unit 215-685-3251\/3252 or call or text the department’s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials are on the hunt for five men after, police claim, they — along with another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12063,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-177374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chinatown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}