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2 Are Charged in Rape and Assault Under Coney Island Boardwalk
One suspect had been released from jail in June after he pleaded guilty to sexual assault in an attack on a woman in a Brooklyn migrant shelter.
A 46-year-old woman was sexually assaulted under the Coney Island boardwalk after two men threatened her with a knife and one struck her boyfriend as he tried to intervene, police officials said.
One man was charged with rape and one with assault in the attacks, which happened around 9 p.m. Sunday near Surf Avenue and West 16th Street.
David Davon-Bonilla, 24, was charged with first-degree rape, assault, sexual abuse, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, the police said. He had pleaded guilty to sexual assault in an attack at a migrant shelter last year.
Leovando Moreno, 37, was charged with assault in the third degree for striking the 34-year-old boyfriend with the metal pipe, according to the criminal complaint. He was also charged with menacing in the second degree, harassment in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, the police said.
Both men are homeless, the police said. They had not been arraigned as of Monday afternoon, and no lawyers were listed for the two in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Mr. Davon-Bonilla, a migrant from Nicaragua, whose previous police and court records were under the first name Daniel, was charged last year with attacking a woman at the migrant shelter in Brooklyn, according to a criminal complaint. Mr. Moreno, who is originally from Mexico, was arrested in New Jersey in 2022 for public lewdness on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, according to police records.
