Police said Monday that they arrested a man for allegedly raping another man who was found dead on the subway in Lower Manhattan earlier this month.
Officers in the NYPD’s 1st Precinct took 44-year-old Brooklyn resident Felix Rojas into custody around 9:30 p.m. Sunday and charged him with rape in the first degree, police officials said. He is accused of sexually assaulting and robbing a fellow subway rider who was unconscious on a southbound R train near the Whitehall Street–South Ferry station shortly after midnight on April 9.
The New York Daily News reported the victim as Jorge Gonzalez, 37, who surveillance footage showed passed out after smoking a cigarette on the train. His estranged wife told the outlet that investigators said he may have died of cirrhosis due to alcoholism…