Months after authorities issued a warrant, law enforcement found him in Pennsylvania, the prosecutor's office said.
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| A man repeatedly sexually assaulted a mentally incapacitated woman he met online, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday. (Passaic County Prosecutor's Office.) |
PATERSON, NJ — A man repeatedly sexually assaulted a mentally incapacitated woman he met online, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday. Once authorities issued an arrest warrant for Horus G. Nunez-Velazquez, it took several months before he was apprehended in Pennsylvania and extradited back to New Jersey, according to law enforcement.
Nunez-Velazquez,
35, of Kearny, was charged with first-degree kidnapping, multiple
counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, third-degree criminal
sexual contact and fourth-degree refusal to allow a biological sample to
be drawn.
The 32-year-old victim's mother contacted Paterson police in May 2021 to report her daughter missing from her home, the prosecutor's office said. The investigation revealed that Nunez-Velazquez met the woman online, picked her up from her home and took her to a nearby park and then to his apartment, authorities said.
During a forensic interview, the woman disclosed several sexual acts involving Nunez-Velazquez in a park, in his car and at his home, the prosecutor's office said. The Kearny man drove the woman back to her home and shoved her out of his vehicle when he noticed the woman's family following him, according to authorities.
Law enforcement later identified Nunez-Velazquez as the suspect. Authorities filed an arrest warrant Feb. 17 — months before Pennsylvania law enforcement found him on June 9, the prosecutor's office said.
Officials detained Nunez-Velazquez at the Passaic County Jail. A judge
granted the state's request for pretrial detention Thursday.
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