Man attempting to rape 13-year-old girl caught in act on Brooklyn rooftop: NYPD

A antheral was arrested for the attempted rape of a 13-year-old aft cops caught him with his pants down and astir to transportation retired the transgression enactment astatine a Brooklyn NYCHA complex connected Wednesday, police said.

Brandon Rodriguez, 28, threatened to harm the unfortunate if she didn’t articulation him connected the extortion of a Sutter Ave. operation adjacent Osborn St. astatine the Brownsville Houses astir 4:30 p.m., said police.

“If you don’t travel upstairs with maine I’m going to wounded you,” the fishy allegedly told the girl.

But Housing Authority police monitoring cameras astatine the NYCHA analyzable were watching arsenic Rodriguez pulled down his pants and tried to rape the miss atop the tower, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Police rushed to the country and arrested the fishy earlier helium could interruption the victim, cops said.

Rodriguez was previously arrested for luring a 13-year-old miss into a Brownsville flat and detaining her there in 2021.

In that earlier incident, the fishy asked the unfortunate to instrumentality a photograph of him with his canine adjacent Osborn St. and Pitkin Ave. successful Brownsville earlier taking her to a adjacent flat gathering connected May 24 that year, cops said.

Once inside, Rodriguez groped the teen portion confiscating her backpack and mounting his canine to defender the exit to forestall her escape, constabulary said.

The fishy tried the aforesaid ruse with 2 much girls, ages 12 and 11, the pursuing day, but they fled earlier helium could lure them into the building, cops said.

Rodriguez was charged with mendacious imprisonment and endangering the payment of a kid successful the 2021 arrest, for which helium received a conditional discharge.