$10K reward remains unclaimed after citizens helped nab migrant accused of raping 13-year-old at NYC park
A $10,000 reward for the tip leading to the capture of the depraved rapist who assaulted a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park remains unclaimed — despite locals banning together to help nab the suspect, sources told The Post.
No tipster had come forward to claim the prize as of Thursday, nearly two days after police — with help from good Samaritans — busted Ecuadorian migrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, in the heinous rape in Kissena Park, sources said.
The arrest came after a five-day manhunt informed by a torrent of tips from the local Queens community, from surveillance video provided by neighbors and shopkeepers to a 911 call from a woman — Angela Sauretti — who spotted Inga-Landi outside a bodega, police and witnesses said.
One good Samaritan, Jeffrey Flores, told The Post he waited outside a 108th Street deli near the park all day because he knew the suspect frequented it — and then tied up Inga-Landi after a crowd beat up on him.
“We’re New Yorkers and we stick together,” said Joseph Kenny, the NYPD’s chief of detectives, on Fox News. “When we something’s wrong, we band together and make things right.”
The reward was offered a day after the June 13 attack, in which police said an “animal” forced the victim and a boy, both 13, into a secluded wooded area in Kissena, Park at knifepoint, tied them up and raped the girl.
Sources told The Post that $3,500 of the reward came from the Crime Stoppers Program, with the remaining sum coming from the New York City Police Foundation.
If and when a tipster comes forward to claim the reward, a police foundation committee will review the claim and divvy out the prize accordingly, sources said.
The reward, if paid, will be given out in a $3,500 chunk for a suspect’s indictment and an additional $6,500 piece upon conviction.
