Authorities finally arrested Sakir Akkan, a 21-year-old illegal alien from Turkey, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in his car in Albany, NY.
The teen said Akkan threatened to beat her with a pipe if she did not get in the car.
Akkan should not have been in the country.
The border patrol arrested Akkan in the San Diego sector on November 5, 2023. He claimed he wanted to go to Philadelphia but never gave agents an address.
Authorities released Akkan a few days later “on his own recognizance due to a lack of bed space and ordered to appear in a Philadelphia court on Feb. 19, 2025.”
Akkan got a New Jersey driver’s license, bought a car, and lived in Troy, NY.
The teenage girl told police the rape happened on May 14:
The incident began after midnight on May 14 when the teenage girl left a residential group home off New Scotland Avenue without authorization. She told police that Akkan, whom she was later able to identify from a photo lineup, drove up to her in a green Toyota Prius, got out and was clutching a metal rod as he threatened to beat her if she didn’t get in his vehicle.Security cameras affixed to utility poles and businesses helped detectives confirm the girl was walking on New Scotland Avenue just before Akkan’s vehicle drove in her direction that night and made a u-turn. Moments later, other cameras captured video of her red clothing as she sat in the passenger seat of Akkan’s car as he drove across Albany to an isolated area off South Pearl Street. She told detectives that he threatened to hit her with the metal pipe if she didn’t follow his orders to get in the back seat, where he removed her clothing and forcibly raped her.A police report indicates she suffered scratches on her legs as she tried to resist the attack.After the alleged sexual assault, Akkan let the girl out of his car and drove away; she ran to a nearby residence for help. Security cameras helped police identify and trace the movements of Akkan both before and after the incident. He had a New Jersey driver’s license and his car had New Jersey license plates that were registered to a different Toyota Prius. It’s unclear if the plates were stolen.
The police arrested Akkan on June 18.
Here’s another problem with authorities: No one told the public about the alleged rape.
The police did not issue a press statement. The police did not warn the public of a possible rapist on the loose.
The police only started talking about the “alleged rape until after the local news outlet started probing — even as the suspect was on the loose for about a month.”
The police said inconsistencies led them to keep the alleged rape a secret.
But The Times-Union found no inconsistencies:
Information shared with the Times Union indicates that the girl’s statements to police were consistent, including the night of the assault when she was interviewed at Albany Medical Center Hospital. When the girl was interviewed a second time by detectives on May 30, more than two weeks after the incident, she made statements that were consistent with her earlier statements to the officers who responded to the call, records show.Those records also indicate that the girl’s account of where and how she was abducted, as well as footage of her leaving the area of South Pearl Street on foot after the sexual assault and running to a nearby residence to get help, were also affirmed by video surveillance cameras.
Officer Megan Craft, a spokeswoman for the Albany Police Department, fired back that the police won’t release a statement about assaults and arrests that don’t pose a risk to the public to “prevent retraumatization of the victim.”
Except…the police department has done it before:
But the department has released information on sexual assaults and rapes in the past. On June 5, the department issued a news release a day after a 17-year-old boy in Albany was charged with forcibly raping a 15-year-old girl while pressing a handgun against her head. Craft declined to clarify why that case, which resulted in an almost immediate arrest, was the subject of a news release, but not the case involving Akkan.
A major cluster mess by the Albany Police and our immigration system.
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