Heroic New Yorker recounts how she placed migrant wanted in girl’s rape at Queens park into headlock: ‘As a woman, I had to really set the tone’

One of the good Samaritans who nabbed the 25-year-old Ecuadorean migrant wanted for the brutal sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park recalled how she bravely placed him in a headlock during the citizen’s arrest to send the message to not “mess with the next woman.”

Angela Sauretti, 23, immediately recognized the man police named as the prime suspect in the broad-daylight attack inside Kissena Park in which a boy and girl, both 13, were held at knifepoint with a “machete-style” blade and had their hands tied with shoelaces before the girl was raped.

Sauretti turned to her friend and asked if the man in front of them at the 108th Street Grocery in Queens around 1 a.m. Tuesday, was the same man they had just seen on an NYPD wanted poster.

“I pointed him out,” Sauretti told The Daily Beast. “I’m like, ‘Yo, that’s him?’ [The friend] said, ‘Yes, that’s him.’ That’s what confirmed it. And everything just spiraled from there.”

Sauretti then grabbed the man, and as he tried to run away, she put him in a headlock, she told the outlet.

“He got something that his mother should have done to him,” she said. “I’ll put it that way.”