Reporter garcias roommates told nbc 10 they are stunned by his arrest. Lu ann cahn live with more on the technology that put police on the suspects trail. Reporter police say it was dogged detective work that broke this case wide open. The first big clue came from the victims iphone. There was police out here, detectives. Reporter detectives swarmed south philadelphia saturday night. Police say after Milton Garcia raped a young doctor in a rittenhouse apartment early saturday morning, he took her iphone here to his house on south 8th street, an iphone with an app to locate it. There was a short period of time that the victims phone gave us an indication to that neighborhood but not to that specific location. Reporter detectives say it was still like finding a needle in a hay stack. It took a lot of leg work, a lot of talking to neighbors and finding that location. Reporter police didnt know for sure they had the right home saturday night. They didnt know for sure the suspect was among
Reporter this is eighth street in south philadelphia. This is where the suspect lives and where police raided last night looking for more evidence. Rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping. Reporter Police Charged Milton Garcia with those offenses and several more. They say hes the man seen here securing his bike to a pole then following this victim forcing her into her own moment. Police say they think it was a crime of opportunity. We believe that this male followed this female for some distance and then positioned himself at a point where he could intercept her. Reporter last night garcia was at work when he went to find him. He was working at a kitchen when investigators stormed in and arrested him. Management sent us a statement saying garcia has been employed for three months and presented all appropriate documents for employment. Garcia gave us no reason to suspect he was involved in any criminal activity. We know garcia is from honduras. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents he
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Rainfall rate. Thats one of the heaviest cells that we have seen all season. Now, as far as it moving toward the philadelphia area, it will be well after 10 00. The latest coordinates show it might be after 11 00 before it gets into the norristown and philadelphia areas. Once it does, we have really heavy rain coming with it. The latest timing with the future weather computers coming from Sheena Parveen right now. Thats right. We will watch the storms as we go into late tonight. Thats when we expect some of the heaviest rain to move in. Here is future weather. The line of storms is just off to the left of your screen. As we go through the next few hours, this line does get closer. By 8 00 tonight, we should start to see heavy rain and thunderstorms moving into the poconos, the Lehigh Valley. They keep pushing to the east. By 10 00 to 11 00, we should see rain along the i95 corridor. Some of this rain heavy at times. This is going to be late tonight. Many of you may even by sleeping whe
Construction cranes were finally able to see some light, at the end of the tunnel the, the headlights rolling on new stretch of concrete along i95. Ill have all of the details that will impact your commute this morning. We will check mass transit coming up next, good morning. Bob, thank you. A rape cyst on the loose in center city philadelphia, putting many women on high alert. Eyewitness News Reporter Syma Chowdhry joins us now from Police Headquarters with Surveillance Video that detectives want everyone to see. Same, a good morning. Good morning, ukee, erika. Police are trying to catch the man they say followed a 26 year old woman to her Rittenhouse Square apartment. And then raped her twice. Theyve released this Surveillance Video, they say, that the man was on a bike, followed the woman, he got off the bike, locked it up, then approached the woman by foot. You can see, the suspect approaching the victim from behind, and grabbing her waist. Now, sources say, he threatened and order