A perv once arrested for forcing a teen to perform a lewd act was busted again for raping a young woman on an Upper West Side stairwell over the weekend, cops said.
Jamel McIver, 30, was nabbed on a tip Sunday in connection to the latest sick attack – which took place a day earlier inside a building at West End Avenue and West 65th Street in Manhattan, authorities said.
McIver trailed behind his 21-year-old victim as she entered the building around 1:20 a.m. Saturday and followed her into an elevator, cops said.
He then forced her out of the lift and into a stairwell, where he raped her, police said.
“He basically made threats to her that he was going to kill her if she didn’t comply,” a police spokesman said.
McIver can be seen at one point taking off his jacket and tossing it over a fence in a video released by police, authorities said. He fled on foot, they said.
The woman was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
McIver – who has 14 prior arrests – was nabbed around 4 p.m. Sunday and charged with rape, sexually motivated burglary and criminal sex act, cops said.
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One of his previous busts involved him breaking into a sleeping teenager’s bedroom and forcing her to touch his groin in April 2019, authorities said.
In that case, McIver pulled his vehicle to the front of the 16-year-old girl’s building on Beck Street near Avenue St. John in Longwood and slipped into her apartment through a fire escape, authorities and law-enforcement sources said at the time. The pair didn’t know each other, source said.
The young victim told police she woke up to find him standing over her bed.
“I want you to touch me, ” the stranger told her, according to police sources at the time. “Don’t scream. I have a gun.”
McIver then grabbed her hand and placed it on his pants over his genitals, police said.
The terrified teen was able to free herself from his grasp, prompting the man to flee from the room through the same fire-escape window.
He was arrested two days after the heinous act, cops said.
Online records show that he was ordered held on $250,000 bail during his initial court appearance in the case.
It is not clear whether he ever made bail, but at trial in March 2020, he was ordered held without bail – only to be released on his own recognizance weeks later with an order of protection issued, online records show.
The circumstances leading to his release — and the disposition of the case — were unclear Monday morning.
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
McIver’s address, provided by police, is listed as Odyssey House, an addiction treatment center in East Harlem.
Amanda Woods
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