The young woman who spotted a wanted child rape suspect has revealed she grabbed him by the neck and wrestled him to the ground before police arrived to arrest him.
Sixty New York detectives were searching for illegal migrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi on Thursday after he was named as the prime suspect in the machete rape of a 13-year-old girl outside her high school.
But he was only arrested on Tuesday after Angela Sauretti, 23, recognized him from a police wanted poster she saw on Instagram and pointed him out to a friend.
“He tried to run away, so I put him in a headlock,” she said The everyday beast.
“He has something his mother should have done to him,” she added. “I’ll put it this way.”
Angela Sauretti, 23, revealed how she spotted and then tackled the suspected rapist
Illegal immigrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, was tied to a lamppost and held by an angry mob until police arrived after being recognized by Sauretti following a call from the NYPD
The teenage girl was playing soccer with a 13-year-old school friend in a Queen’s park when Inga approached them around 3:30 p.m., police said.
He threatened them with a ‘large machete-style knife’ before forcing both into a secluded area and tying their wrists with a shoelace.
He then raped the girl, stole their cell phones and ran away.
The attack horrified the town, but the trail went cold until the early hours of Tuesday morning when Sauretti spotted the hooded figure entering a grocery store less than a mile to the west.
“I pointed it out to him,” Sauretti said. “I’m like, ‘Yo, that’s him?’ He said, ‘Yes, that’s him.’ ‘That confirmed it. And everything spiraled from there.”
Footage of his arrest went viral on Tuesday, showing Inga-Landi cowering under the car and surrounded by angry residents before being tied to a post as police rushed to the scene.
A woman, believed to be Sauretti, was recorded shouting “I beat him up” before explaining on Tuesday how she was determined to impress the suspected rapist that his downfall had come at the hands of a woman.
“As a woman, I really had to set the tone and remind him, ‘It wasn’t a man who did this to you. It was a woman,” the aspiring radiologist explained.
“You did that to a woman, and a woman came back and did this to you.
Inga was led from police custody on Tuesday and brought to court to face charges
Witnesses said Inga-Landi tried to flee before police arrived but was tied to the lamppost with a leash
An image showed the shirtless suspect being led away by police wearing only one shoe after the fight with a group of locals
“So it made him think, ‘Maybe I won’t mess with the next woman.’ Because you never know. There are nice ones and there are those who will really defend themselves and do everything they can.
“He said, ‘Let me explain!’ I’m like, ‘There’s nothing to explain. You are a rapist, you raped a little girl,” he said, “I don’t care.”
“So that’s why we put our hands and feet on him. I don’t regret it at all.’
By then, more people had joined the effort to restrain him, including Isabel Caizado, 67, who kicked him before taking off one of her shoes to hit him with it.
The man’s hoodie and T-shirt came off as he struggled to get away, revealing a chest tattoo that Sauretti recognized from the NYPD call.
“That made us go even faster,” Sauretti said.
Inga-Landi crossed the southern border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2021, and Daniel Ramos, who assisted in his capture, said he overheard him an hour earlier and revealed he planned to board later that morning to board a plane to his native Ecuador.
Police arrested him and took him from the 112 Precinct station to court Tuesday morning, where he is charged with multiple counts of rape, kidnapping and sexual abuse.
Police said Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi approached the girl and a 13-year-old boy in the Kissena Corridor Park while brandishing a machete
The attack happened Thursday about three miles from Citi Field stadium, near the victim’s school
Sauretti, the daughter of a school security guard, may be eligible for the $10,000 reward for Inga-Landi’s arrest, but says she wasn’t thinking about that when she restrained the heavyset suspect.
“I would have done it even if it wasn’t a reward because at the end of the day I feel like it’s the right thing to do,” she said.
‘I have structure. I have limits. I know where I stand, what I like, what I don’t like, what I want to do, what I don’t want to do.
‘Nobody can put pressure on me. No one can tell me what to do.’