Overview
- NYPD detectives with support from the U.S. Marshals and Miami Beach Police arrested 30-year-old Dereck Rivera-Deleon while he was working at a Burger King in Miami Beach on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026.
- Miami Beach police and U.S. Marshals said DNA evidence and positive identifications from victims connect Rivera-Deleon to three separate rapes in Central Park in 2021, 2023 and the Oct. 24, 2026 attack.
- The Oct. 24 assault reportedly involved a 39-year-old woman who was threatened with a knife, taken into a wooded area and hospitalized in stable condition after the attack.
- Rivera-Deleon is being held at the Miami-Dade jail (Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center) on an out-of-state warrant and is scheduled for an extradition hearing before transfer to New York for charging and arraignment.
- The arrest followed weeks of increased NYPD patrols in Central Park and public appeals for tips, and officials say the case underscores multiagency coordination in tracking suspects who leave the city.