A man was arrested for the attempted rape of a 13-year-old after cops caught him with his pants down and about to carry out the criminal act at a Brooklyn NYCHA complex on Wednesday, police said.
Brandon Rodriguez, 28, threatened to harm the victim if she didn’t join him on the roof of a Sutter Ave. tower near Osborn St. at the Brownsville Houses around 4:30 p.m., said police.
“If you don’t come upstairs with me I’m going to hurt you,” the suspect allegedly told the girl.
But Housing Authority police monitoring cameras at the NYCHA complex were watching as Rodriguez pulled down his pants and tried to rape the girl atop the tower, according to law enforcement.
Police rushed to the scene and arrested the suspect before he could violate the victim, cops said.
Rodriguez was previously arrested for luring a 13-year-old girl into a Brownsville apartment and detaining her there in 2021.
In that earlier incident, the suspect asked the victim to take a photo of him with his dog near Osborn St. and Pitkin Ave. in Brownsville before taking her to a nearby apartment building on May 24 that year, cops said.
Once inside, Rodriguez groped the teen while confiscating her backpack and setting his dog to guard the exit to prevent her escape, police said.
The suspect tried the same ruse with two more girls, ages 12 and 11, the following day, but they fled before he could lure them into the building, cops said.
Rodriguez was charged with false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child in the 2021 arrest, for which he received a conditional discharge.