Angela Sauretti
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Crime in our big cities is so out of control, if Hollywood started making a new series of Dirty Harry movies – they’d be box office smashes.
In real life, there are some people who are ready to stand up and fight back.
Thank God for someone like Angela Sauretti. She’s a 23-year-old from Queens who helped capture the city’s most-wanted rapist.
Police had been searching for their suspect Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, an illegal immigrant from Equador, who pulled a knife on a 13-year-old girl, used her shoelaces to tie her hands, and raped her in a city park. It was such a horrific crime, committed by someone who shouldn’t have even been in the country, that Donald Trump talked about it during his rally in Racine.
Wanted posters with the suspect’s picture had been plastered around the Queens neighborhood. That’s when Angela Saurettispotted him coming out of a bodega. “That’s him,” she said to her boyfriend. “Let’s take him down.” Angela, who appears to be a petite woman, jumped him from behind and put him in a headlocked. He boyfriend joined in. And soon a large crowd gathered around. During the struggle, the suspect’s shirt came off, revealing his distinctive tattoos. There was no doubt that he was the suspect. He would have been a victim of mob justice if he didn’t roll underneath a car until police arrived to take him away.
Let’s see what happens to Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi. New York is a low-bail/no-bail city. Even violent criminals are often back on the streets the day they’re arrested. There’s evidence that he was planning to leave the country, knowing he was a hunted man.
I’m interested in the back-story, because there’s enough outrage surrounding this case that policy could actually change. Did this animal cross our southern border under the Biden Administration’s policies? Was he flown to New York on one of those late night Air Biden flights? How much contact did he have with the police? Or with immigration officials?
In the meantime, I’m thankful for Angela Sauretti, who risked her own safety to bring down a rapist. As he was led away, she yelled at him. ““You did that to a woman, and a woman got back and did this to you.” She told him, “I did something to you that your mother should have done a long time ago.”
Chris Conley
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