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Problem:A heavily tattooed homeless man with a history of violence was arrested Thursday on charges he retaliated against a 73-year-old birdwatcher who took a compromising photo of him by brutally raping her in broad daylight in a normally serene part of Central Park. 
  
 This image taken from surveillance video and provided by the New York City Police Department on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, shows a man believed to have mugged and sexually assaulted a 73 year old woman... (Associated Press) 
  
 Police officers talk near a crime scene in a heavily wooded section of Central Park in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Police say a woman in her 70s has reported that she was sexually assaulted in... (Associated Press) 
  
 This image taken from surveillance video and provided by the New York City Police Department on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, shows a man believed to have mugged and sexually assaulted a 73 year old woman... (Associated Press) 
  
 Three rookie police officers took David Albert Mitchell into custody on Wednesday night after spotting him walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, not far from where the woman said the attack occurred. 
  
 The woman picked the 42-year-old Mitchell out of a lineup on Thursday, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said. 
  
 Investigators believe Mitchell was the man shown in footage from police security cameras leaving the park with the woman's backpack. Browne said Mitchell had some of the woman's belongings, including photo memory cards, on him when he was picked up. 
  
 Mitchell was arraigned early Friday on charges of first-degree rape, robbery, assault and other charges and ordered held without bail, prosecutors said. The name of his attorney was not immediately available. 
  
 Earlier, Mitchell said nothing as he was led from the special victims unit to face charges in court, but he spat at reporters gathered there. He also was facing charges he threatened a man last month with a knife in the same area of the park. 
  
 He told the man, according to investigators: "I have no problem stabbing you as many times as I want and making this circle full of blood." 
  
 Relatives in Virginia, reached by phone, said Mitchell _ who has tattoos of the grim reaper, castles, Nordic warriors and dragons all over his body _ was a heavy drinker who had spent most of his life in and out of jail. They said they weren't surprised by his latest brush with the law. 
  
 A sister-in-law and onetime girlfriend said he had been arrested in 2003 after trying to sexually assault her and dragging her out of her home in a drunken rage. Records show he was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to an abduction charge. 
  
 His trouble "was always sexually driven," Saretta Mitchell told The Associated Press. "He was a sick individual as far as sex goes. ... I was just a dumb, naive person to get involved with him." 
  
 Mitchell's extensive criminal record in Virginia and West Virginia included a 1989 arrest on murder and rape charges. He was acquitted at trial. 
  
 The last time Mitchell was seen in Virginia was at the beginning of August, his relatives said. 
  
 The birdwatcher had told police she was attacked at around 11 a.m. Wednesday in a wooded area near Strawberry Fields, a spot that serves as a memorial to John Lennon and is one of Central Park's busiest sections. The woman told investigators a man threw her to the ground and attacked her, then made off with a backpack that contained her camera. 
  
 She had also said she thought the assailant was a man she photographed fondling himself about nine days ago in a more isolated spot known as the Ramble. She said he demanded she delete the image and tried to grab her camera but didn't succeed. Police said that initial encounter wasn't reported. 
  
 Investigators said Mitchell was known as Keith in the park and had been haunting the Ramble and other locations. It's unclear how long he had been in New York. 
  
 In an interview with the New York Post published Thursday, the woman recounted how the man jumped on her back, pummeled her, grabbed her throat and threatened to cut her jugular when she screamed. She said she feels jittery but is mostly enraged. 
  
 "Kill him. Cut off his penis. That's fine," she said. "Cut off his feet, then hit him over the head. Then give him life in prison." 
  
 Although the park is considered safe and there have been few reported crimes there in the past several years, there have been some headline-grabbing exceptions. 
  
 On April 19, 1989, an investment banker was found after being attacked while jogging. She became known worldwide as "the Central Park jogger." 
  
 She was in a coma for 12 days before beginning her near-miraculous recovery. The jogger, Trisha Meili, disclosed her identity in 2003 and published a memoir. 
  
 Meili said her "heart was just aching" when she saw headlines about the birdwatcher's attack. 
  
 "I want to send loving thoughts of healing to this woman and let her know that thousands are thinking about her and sending prayers for her vibrant spirit ... to move forward from this horrible violation," she said. 
  
 Meili, who no longer lives in the New York City area, still jogs and is even back in Central Park from time to time. 
  
 "There are wonderful things that happen in that park, too," she said. 
  
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 Associated Press writer Kiley Armstrong contributed to this report. ||||| A deviant drifter with a terrifying rap sheet that includes two sex attacks on elderly women was charged Thursday with the rape of a 73-year-old bird watcher in Central Park. 
  
  
  
 Three rookie cops caught Appalachian ex-con David Albert Mitchell, 42, strolling down an upper West Side street, and the victim later picked him out of a lineup. 
  
  
  
 The West Virginia native — who has been locked up most of his adult life — did not confess and asked for a lawyer. 
  
  
  
 But he was nabbed with the memory card from the victim’s camera, which he snatched after dragging her into the brush to beat and rape her Wednesday morning, police said. 
  
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 “He’s clearly a violent, dangerous individual,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. 
  
  
  
 The disheveled suspect — covered in tattoos of warriors, dragons and the Grim Reaper — angrily spat at reporters as he was taken to Central Booking. 
  
  
  
 Hours later, he remained silent as he was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. 
  
  
  
 Mitchell’s disturbing criminal history began when he was just 18 and charged with molesting and beating to death 87-year-old Annie Parks during a burglary in his hometown of Jenkinjones near the border of Kentucky and Virginia. 
  
  
  
 A jury acquitted him, and months later he was accused of raping a woman in her 70s during another break-in, the Charleston Gazette reported. 
  
  
  
 “He asked me to get him the best possible plea deal,” said Sid Bell, who was his lawyer at the time and is now a prosecutor. 
  
 Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News 
  
 Mitchell pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, was sentenced to 10 years and did about eight in state prison. 
  
  
  
 After his release, the ex-con was arrested at least twice more before being convicted of kidnapping in 2003 and sent back to prison for eight more years. 
  
  
  
 He was busted several times in the past two years for probation violations and petty crimes but didn’t serve any hard time before he left for New York. 
  
  
  
 James Keivom/New York Daily News 
  
 Mitchell’s brushes with the law “were always sexually driven,” his sister-in-law and ex-girlfriend Saretta Mitchell told The Associated Press. She said she was the victim in the 2003 case and was nearly sexually assaulted by the drunken predator when he dragged her from her home. 
  
  
  
 Investigators believe he arrived here three or four months ago and was sleeping in Central Park. And he soon found trouble again, sources said. 
  
  
  
 He threatened Ayrton Ferreria dos Santos, a performance artist known as the “Mayor of Strawberry Fields,” with a knife on Aug. 20, police said. 
  
  
  
 “He pulled a 6-inch shank on me,” dos Santos said. “It all happened over a joint.” 
  
  
  
 Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News 
  
 A week ago, Mitchell was masturbating in a section of the park called The Ramble when the elderly bird watcher inadvertently photographed him — triggering a scary encounter, Browne said. 
  
  
  
 “What are you doing?” the man demanded when he saw her camera. “Give me that.” 
  
  
  
 The woman, a professional photographer, ran off without reporting the incident. Then, on Wednesday morning, while she was trying out a new camera lens in the park, the same man pounced and began pummeling her, police said. 
  
  
  
 “Do you remember me?” he asked. Then he dragged her into the brush and brutalized her. 
  
  
  
 “This was a revenge attack,” the shaken and bandaged victim told Channel 7 Thursday night. 
  
  
  
 She said she would not let the attack deter her from her beloved hobby, vowing, “Nobody is going to take that pleasure away from me.” Detectives discovered the earlier photo of Mitchell on the woman’s hard drive and gathered surveillance photos of the attacker leaving the park. 
  
  
  
 The NYPD beefed up patrols near the park. Officers Enmanuel Rodriguez, Steven Ourelio and Sicelin Ortiz spotted Mitchell Wednesday evening at W. 77th St. and Amsterdam Ave. 
  
  
  
 “We had very alert rookie officers who recognized him,” Browne said. 
  
  
  
 After the victim identified him, the career criminal was charged with rape, a predatory sex act, a criminal sex act, robbery and felony assault. He was also charged with menacing in the knife incident last month. 
  
 New York Daily News 
  
 It was the first rape in the park this year, and Mayor Bloomberg said New Yorkers should not be fearful. “I feel so sorry for the woman,” he said. “It’s a terrible thing, but I think the overall history of safety in the park says it’s one of the safest places you can be.”But some parkgoers were still nervous. “I am appalled. I spend so much time in the park — that is really, really scary,” said Andy Young, 33, an actress who lives in midtown.Derrick Edwards, 29, a tour guide from Brooklyn, said he had no qualms about using the park. “This ain’t the ’70s. It’s so rare that it’s not a concern.”With Edgar Sandoval, Rich Schapiro, Tina Moore, and Jennifer H. Cunninghamtconnor@nydailynews.com |||||
Solution:
A homeless man with an extensive criminal record has been arrested on suspicion of raping and robbing a 73-year-woman in New York City's Central Park earlier this week. Police patrols around the park were beefed up after the elderly bird watcher was attacked in broad daylight. David Albert Mitchell, a 42-year-old drifter from West Virginia, was arrested after he was spotted by three rookie cops, the AP reports. The victim picked him out of a lineup and some of her possessions were found on him. The suspect, who spat at reporters as he was led to court, has been arraigned on charges of first-degree rape, robbery, assault, and other charges and ordered held without bail. Mitchell, whose body is covered in tattoos of warriors, dragons, and the Grim Reaper, has a disturbing criminal record and has spent most of his adult life in prison, the New York Daily News reports. When he was 18, he was charged with molesting and beating to death an 87-year-old woman in his hometown. He was acquitted, but was arrested for raping a woman in her 70s during a break-in months later and was sentenced to 10 years. In 2003, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for attacking and trying to kidnap his sister-in-law, a former girlfriend. His trouble "was always sexually driven," she says. "He was a sick individual as far as sex goes. I was just a dumb, naive person to get involved with him."