An East Flatbush felon accused of attempted rape less than two weeks after being cut free from Rikers due to COVID concerns has now been connected to the robbery of a nurse, The Post has learned.
The 57-year-old Robert Pondexter was arrested on April 25 after being picked up in East New York with a crack pipe and charged with an attempted rape from earlier that day, police sources told The Post.
Four days earlier, on April 21, Pondexter allegedly grabbed the wrist of a 50-year-old nurse while she was walking to her car outside Kings County Hospital Center around 8 p.m. and demanded money, according to sources.
The felon told the woman “I have a gun” and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over the loot, sources said.
It was unclear if he actually had a firearm, but he made off with $20, sources said.
Cops eyed Pondexter for the crime back in late April — but it wasn’t until Monday that they had enough evidence to rearrest him on a robbery charge until detectives recently connected pieces of surveillance footage linking him to the crime, sources said.
Pondexter — who is a four-time convicted felon with three of those convictions connected to violent felonies — was released on April 15 from Rikers where he was being held on an unrelated technical parole violation, according to sources.