Police are searching for more potential victims after they said a suspected serial rapist attacked three people, two of them teenage girls, in a span of four months in Queens
It wasn't until after midnight on New Year's Day that police said the case expanded, when a 21-year-old woman said she was lured into Portilla's car to charge her phone near Queens Plaza South and 27th Street, then attacked.
The suspect was apparently spooked after finding a photo of a missing person flyer on one of the victim's phones, according to police. He let her go, and was quickly picked up by the NYPD.It was not immediately clear how Portilla, who police said has a criminal record, allegedly made contact with the teen victims. Investigators are now searching to see who else he may have come in contact with.
A woman who lives at Portilla's home address police provided said she doesn't know the suspect, and neighbors said they didn't recognize him either.
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