Crime & Safety

Queens Back Alley Sex Attacker Arrested, Cops Say

Myung Park, 40, faces sex crime and kidnapping charges after police said he pulled a woman into a back alley and attacked her, police said.

Police said this man sexually abused a woman Monday in a Queens alleyway.
Police said this man sexually abused a woman Monday in a Queens alleyway. (NYPD)

QUEENS, NY — A predator behind a Queens back alley sex attack on a woman is behind bars, police said.

Cops arrested Myung Park, 40, Thursday on accusations he dragged a woman into an alleyway near a Murray Hill karaoke bar and sexually abused her, authorities said.

Park faces charges of aggravated sexual abuse and kidnapping, among others, in the Monday morning assault, NYPD officials said.

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The attack unfolded 5:15 a.m. as a 43-year-old woman stood in front of a karaoke bar at Northern Boulevard and 161st Street, police said.

A man — Park, police contend — grabbed the woman into an alley across from the bar and sexually abused her before he ran off, authorities said.

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The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries and medics took her to a local hospital, officials said.

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