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Paterson man charged in rapes of 3 girls, woman
Thursday, January 12, 2006
PATERSON - Police have arrested a 33-year-old city man who they say raped three teenage girls and a young woman in the past month.
Police arrested Termaine Pines without incident at his home on Monday, Detective Lt. Danny Nichols said Wednesday. Pines has been charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, four counts of first-degree aggravated assault, two counts of third-degree criminal restraint and one count of third-degree weapons possession, police said.
The suspect was being held Wednesday night in the Passaic County Jail on $1.5 million cash bail.
Police say they suspect Pines may have assaulted other local women and that he also is wanted on a "similar" sexual assault charge in Oklahoma. As a result, Paterson police investigators are now running samples of Pines' DNA
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through a national database to determine whether
it matches other sex-offense data, Nichols said.
Authorities are asking anyone who believes they may have been assaulted by Pines to call the Paterson Police Department major crimes unit at (973) 321-1120 and ask for Detective Denise Bodanski. Pines has lived in Paterson over the past six months and worked locally loading and unloading trucks.
The latest attack in which Pines is suspected occurred on Jan. 7 at Iowa and East Railway avenues, when he allegedly used a knife to threaten and sexually assault two girls, ages 16 and 17, police said.
Pines' sex attacks are believed to have started on Dec. 11 at the Riverview Towers at 105 Presidential Blvd., when he used a knife to assault a 20-year-old woman, according to police.
Then, on Dec. 30, Pines attacked a 16-year-old at Carlisle Avenue and Ramsey Street, police said, adding that Pines did not brandish a weapon in that attack. The separate attacks did not fit an obvious patt
ern
, leading investigators initially to believe they were looking
for three different perpetrators, Nichols said.
Other details of the crimes didn't easily fall into a pattern, Nichols explained: Pines was an acquaintance of the first victim; he allegedly accosted the second victim randomly on the street; and, in the third, a mutual acquaintance introduced the victims to the alleged perpetrator.
Police began to suspect they were dealing with the same sexual predator in all three cases after an informant tipped off a detective who was not involved in the assault cases, Nichols said.
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Paterson man charged in rapes of 3 girls, woman
Thursday, January 12, 2006
PATERSON - Police have arrested a 33-year-old city man who they say raped three teenage girls and a young woman in the past month.
Police arrested Termaine Pines without incident at his home on Monday, Detective Lt. Danny Nichols said Wednesday. Pines has been charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, four counts of first-degree aggravated assault, two counts of third-degree criminal restraint and one count of third-degree weapons possession, police said.
The suspect was being held Wednesday night in the Passaic County Jail on $1.5 million cash bail.
Police say they suspect Pines may have assaulted other local women and that he also is wanted on a "similar" sexual assault charge in Oklahoma. As a result, Paterson police investigators are now running samples of Pines' DNA
r
through a national database to determine whether
it matches other sex-offense data, Nichols said.
Authorities are asking anyone who believes they may have been assaulted by Pines to call the Paterson Police Department major crimes unit at (973) 321-1120 and ask for Detective Denise Bodanski. Pines has lived in Paterson over the past six months and worked locally loading and unloading trucks.
The latest attack in which Pines is suspected occurred on Jan. 7 at Iowa and East Railway avenues, when he allegedly used a knife to threaten and sexually assault two girls, ages 16 and 17, police said.
Pines' sex attacks are believed to have started on Dec. 11 at the Riverview Towers at 105 Presidential Blvd., when he used a knife to assault a 20-year-old woman, according to police.
Then, on Dec. 30, Pines attacked a 16-year-old at Carlisle Avenue and Ramsey Street, police said, adding that Pines did not brandish a weapon in that attack. The separate attacks did not fit an obvious patt
ern
, leading investigators initially to believe they were looking
for three different perpetrators, Nichols said.
Other details of the crimes didn't easily fall into a pattern, Nichols explained: Pines was an acquaintance of the first victim; he allegedly accosted the second victim randomly on the street; and, in the third, a mutual acquaintance introduced the victims to the alleged perpetrator.
Police began to suspect they were dealing with the same sexual predator in all three cases after an informant tipped off a detective who was not involved in the assault cases, Nichols said.
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