Security guard interrupts rape
White Plains NY August 14 2023 Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced Monday that two men were charged on indictments with sexually assaulting teenagers in three separate incidents during June in Rye and North White Plains.
Richard Olmino, 21, of Port Chester, was charged in an 18-count indictment returned by a Westchester County grand jury, with sexually assaulting two teenagers during two separate June attacks in Rye.
He has been charged with attempted rape, attempted criminal sexual act, two counts of sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child, four counts of robbery as a sexually motivated felony, two counts of grand larceny, and three counts of unlawful imprisonment.
According to the indictment, on June 23 at approximately 12 a.m., Olmino allegedly threatened a 16-year-old jogger in Rye Town Park saying he had a knife before tackling her to the ground, exposing himself and sexually assaulting her. A security guard in the area interrupted the attack and Olmino allegedly fled the scene leaving behind his phone.
City of Rye police, assisted by county police and federal agents, used Olmino’s phone to identify and locate him leading to his arrest on June 24.
He was remanded to the Westchester County Jail as he had two open warrants in Connecticut for public lewd acts and a pending criminal case in Suffolk County.
DNA evidence from the June 23 incident linked him to a June 3 incident where, at approximately 1:36 a.m., he allegedly sexually assaulted an 18-year-old who was walking home from an after-prom party in the vicinity of Rye High School
In a second case, Rocah said a grand jury indicted Jose Mejia Lopez, 32, who was charged for attacking a teenager at knifepoint in North White Plains and forcibly kissing the victim before fleeing and resisting arrest.
He was charged with sexual abuse, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful imprisonment, menacing, assault, resisting arrest and escape.
According to the indictment, he an 18-year-old who was walking with two friends to the North White Plains Metro-North station on June 22 at approximately 4 p.m. and forcibly kissed her while pinning the victim against a wall by her neck and holding a knife to her throat. The attack was captured on surveillance video.
Police obtained he may have fled the scene on a Westchester County. White Plains Police stopped the bus headed to Yonkers on North Broadway and removed Lopez, who fled after being placed under arrest. Following a short foot pursuit, during which a police officer was injured, he was apprehended
Police recovered a pocket-knife from underneath a seat in the bus near where he had allegedly been seated.
Bail was set at $50,000 cash/$100,000 bond/$500,000 partially secured bond and he remains in custody.
