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       Person of interest taken into custody for attempted rape of Central
       Park sunbather: Sources
        
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       A person of interest is in custody for the attempted rape of a woman
       sunbathing in Central Park last month, police sources told ABC News.
        
       The person of interest was in custody on a separate forcible touching
       case, according to the sources.
        
       The man, who has not been identified, has not been charged in the June
       24 attempted sexual assault of a woman, but the sources said DNA links
       him to the incident.
        
       The 21-year-old woman was alone and sunbathing in the Great Hill
       section of the park when a man came toward her exposing himself around
       1:30 p.m. last Monday, New York Police Department Chief of Patrol John
       Chell said last week.
        
       "She screams and gets up to run," but "he tackles her from behind" and
       "tried to get on top of her," Chell said.
        
       The victim fought the man off and he fled, he added.
        
       The New York Police Department released a sketch of the suspect on
       June 27.
        
       The attacker had been described as a Black man in his 30s with curly
       hair, police said. He has a medium build and is about 6 feet tall,
       police said.
        
       Police said there were no known patterns for sexual assaults in
       Central Park, which Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard described as
       "one of the most iconic locations in the world" for New Yorkers and
       visitors.
        
        _ABC News' Emily Shapiro contributed to this report._
        
        
        
        
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