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Convicted rapist steals NYC straphanger’s cellphone, cut loose without bail
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Published Jan. 31, 2024, 4:23 p.m. ET
A convicted rapist arrested last week for stealing a straphanger’s cellphone in a lower Manhattan subway station was cut loose without bail — even though he had also failed to tell authorities he’d changed his address.
The 22-year-old victim allegedly stopped the registered sex offender — Kyron Mohansingh, 33 — in the Bowery Station at about 4 p.m. on Jan. 26 to innocently ask for directions, police sources said.
That’s when Mohansingh snatched his iPhone from his hands and took off up the stairs, according to sources.
The victim ran after him, then flagged down some transit cops who had just finished a station inspection.
They quickly collared the fleeing robber — who is on post-release supervision — and returned the victim’s cellphone.
Mohansingh was arraigned on charges of fourth-degree grand larceny and petit larceny the next day, the complaint said.
There had also been a warrant out for his arrest on unrelated charges over a skipped court date he’d been assigned because he moved to Delaware from Harlem without telling the monitor’s unit.
“I was on the run, I was in Delaware where my girlfriend lives,” he told an NYPD detective, according to court documents.
Despite that, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office requested the court cut him loose on supervised release for the robbery, and on his own recognizance for the warrant.
The judge granted both requests. He’s now wearing an ankle monitor while “an investigation of his new alleged criminal behavior” is completed by his parole officer, said a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
“Depending on the outcome of the investigation, a new DOCCS warrant may be issued and the parole revocation process will be initiated,” the spokesperson added.
Mohansingh pleaded guilty to first-degree rape back in 2014, when the then-23-year-old admitted he attacked a woman a year earlier in a secluded patch of woods on Staten Island, according to Staten Island Advance.
He’d also tried to rape another woman nine months earlier, the outlet said. He was sentenced to five years in state prison.
The Manhattan DA’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the request for Mohansingh’s release.
His rearrest didn’t shock one cop who heard about it.
“Shocker: someone who committed a heinous crime is capable of doing more crime,” one law enforcement source told The Post.
His next court date is Feb. 2.