{"id":269191,"date":"2026-08-21T00:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269191\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:40:21","slug":"south-side-rape-suspect-arrested-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269191\/","title":{"rendered":"South Side rape suspect arrested in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Side rape suspect arrested in New York City<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man wanted for allegedly raping a woman in a parking lot in Pittsburgh&#8217;s South Side was arrested Thursday in New York City, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Larry Pappy Johnson was taken into custody in Staten Island, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Looking for more news in your area | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">According to a criminal complaint, Johnson allegedly dragged the victim to a parking lot off South 14th Street, assaulted her, stole her belongings, and left her naked.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Pittsburgh police said Johnson, 37, faces charges of rape, sexual assault, robbery, false imprisonment and indecent assault in connection with the Aug. 8 incident.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Johnson has a long criminal history, including a conviction for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/fight-leads-to-stabbing-on-pittsburghs-south-side\/26926398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stabbing on the South Side in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Side rape suspect arrested in New York City PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man wanted for allegedly raping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,335,4602],"class_list":["post-269191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rape","tag-south-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269191","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=269191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}