A blue-haired maniac with an extended rap sheet went on a disgusting rampage in Manhattan, groping 4 girls — together with one who’s blind — and lighting a fifth unsuspecting sufferer’s hair on fireplace, police mentioned.
Edwin Web page — a 28-year-old from Harlem with no less than 10 prior arrests and greater than a dozen psychological well being disturbance calls — was busted this week for the unhinged, broad-daylight assaults throughout Chelsea and Midtown South, authorities mentioned.
The perv first horrifically focused the 23-year-old blind girl on Friday morning at West twenty third Avenue close to Seventh Avenue.
The sufferer was utilizing a information cane and ready to enter a Flatiron service focus on 8:10 a.m. when the creep got here as much as her and cruelly sneered, “Hey blind lady. I’m a detective. Are you able to see my badge? In fact not, you’re blind,” in line with police.
He then grabbed her buttocks earlier than strolling off and returning a short while later, asking the sufferer, “Do you may have the time?,” cops mentioned.
Web page allegedly continued his groping spree on Monday — randomly attacking 4 extra girls in nearly two hours, in line with police.
He first strolled as much as a 27-year-old girl utilizing her cellphone on West thirty second Avenue close to Sixth Avenue round 12:10 p.m., authorities mentioned.
“Do you need to know what it feels wish to be my girlfriend?” the sicko allegedly requested, earlier than urgent his genitals into her leg.
Simply quarter-hour later, Web page allegedly set his sights on a 37-year-old girl pushing a stroller close to the identical intersection, slapping her buttocks earlier than working off, cops mentioned.
He returned to Sixth Avenue and West thirty second Avenue round 12:50 p.m. and terrifyingly lit a lady’s hair on fireplace, cops mentioned.
The lady was strolling up the avenue when she smelled smoke and realized her locks had been burning, in line with police.
She managed to pat down her personal hair and extinguish the flames earlier than she was critically harm, cops mentioned.
Web page allegedly resurfaced round 2:15 p.m., barging into the QQ Nails and Spa on Sixth Avenue close to West twenty sixth Avenue, the place he stormed as much as a 29-year-old girl getting her nails accomplished and grabbed her buttocks, cops mentioned.
He was arrested Monday night and faces a slew of costs — together with forcible touching, sexual abuse and legal possession of a managed substance — in connection to the lewd acts, police mentioned.
Most of Web page’s prior busts are for home assaults in Queens, regulation enforcement sources mentioned.
However his most up-to-date arrest previous to this week was Feb. 26 in Midtown, the place he was charged with third-degree assault. The small print of that case weren’t instantly clear.
He additionally has no less than 18 earlier incidents as an “emotionally disturbed particular person,” in line with the sources.
Web page — who was awaiting arraignment Wednesday — was hauled to Manhattan Felony Court docket sporting electric-blue-dyed hair and a black T-shirt depicting Al Pacino as Tony Montana within the 1983 movie “Scarface” over a long-sleeved shirt the identical colour as his locks.
He replied “Good” when a photographer requested him how he’s doing, as an officer escorted him into the constructing.
Cops charged Web page with assault inflicting bodily damage for allegedly lighting the girl’s hair on fireplace.
He additionally faces two counts of first-degree sexual abuse — one as a hate crime — in addition to first-degree stalking, two counts of first-degree aggravated harassment and second-degree legal impersonation in connection to that crime, police mentioned.
