Riverside Park rapist probe in DC

NEW YORK

The Manhattan District Attorney's office sent out an alert Friday asking Washington residents to come forward with information about Hugues-Denver Akassy.

He's charged in New York with raping a Russian tourist last month in Riverside Park, lurking on another woman's fire escape and harassing a third woman. His lawyer didn't immediately return a call.

The 42-year-old Akassy is being held on $100,000 bail.

The Ivory Coast native's website says he runs a public-affairs TV production company. But some of those listed as producers and sponsors have told newspapers they never worked with him.

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