Vigilantes administer street justice to career criminal who attempted to rape an elderly woman in broad daylight

A 50-year-old career criminal learned the hard way this month that trying to rape elderly women in the Bronx can get you beat — beat bad.

Oswaldo Ramos, a career criminal with 19 prior arrests, approached a 70-year-old Bronx woman around 1:00 pm last Friday evening and then tried to rape her before fleeing on foot, according to the New York Post.

But he made one vital mistake. He allowed himself to be captured by a surveillance camera trying to put his pants back on after the attempted rape. After the police released the footage to the public, it was go time.

(Video Credit: CrimeStoppers)

“Enraged locals” reportedly spotted him nearby the next day and then proceeded to whoop his butt so bad he needed medical care.

The cops themselves didn’t even find out until an anonymous caller told them that vigilantes had found the perp, whooped him, and then sent him off to the hospital.

As for the vigilantes, one of them proudly defended his actions to the Post.

“Yeah, we beat him up,” the vigilante said.

“You don’t do that, that’s something you don’t do,” he added, referring to the suspect’s behavior. “And if he comes back, I’m going to rock him again.”

“We don’t tolerate that kind of stuff around here,” another vigilante said. “You won’t see any video on it. No cameras.”

A woman who lives near the victim also commented, saying, “I heard that there was a man trying to go through someone’s fire escape, and [the victim] came out yelling, ‘Naked! naked!’ And some of the residents started to cover her up.”

Ramos was finally arrested on Sunday and reportedly charged with attempted rape and burglary but had yet to be arraigned by Tuesday afternoon because he was still in the hospital.

His last arrest was in 2018, when he robbed a Bronx deli.

“He allegedly barged into the shop on East 178th Street near Mapes Avenue, flashed the butt of a black handgun and sneered, ‘Give me the money. I just shot a cop. I’ll be back tomorrow for more money,’” according to the Post.

Except he never shot a cop, and that claim was just a lie.

This incident occurred almost exactly a year after a Marine Corps veteran who was stabbed while protecting a lady on a New York City subway urged city officials to get way more serious about crime.

Veteran Alfredo Troche, 53, told the Post at the time that his military training compelled him to intervene when he spotted two men threatening an elderly woman with a box cutter at a subway station in Allerton, a Bronx neighborhood.

“I was coming up the steps on Pelham Parkway, and I see a lady screaming. It could be my grandmother,” he said.

“I see two shadows. I see a box cutter, and I’m thinking, ‘Oh, I get the adrenaline, Marine Corps.’ They were going to assault the lady. It could have been my grandmother. It could have been you. It could have been him, your mother. She was screaming,” he added.

Troche then jumped into action like a “martial artist,” reportedly “pinching, kicking, kicking the teeth” out of the perps.

He wound up sustaining stab wounds to his hand, his inner elbow, and his leg. After the fight, he called the police.

“They didn’t come, so I kept on going and I fell down in the Bronx Zoo, [and] at a bus stop I called the ambulance,” he recalled.

As for the woman he saved, she later reached out to him to thank him.

“Thank you for your service,” she reportedly said.

The incident occurred a day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul began deploying National Guard soldiers and State Police officers to patrol New York City’s subways and, more importantly, check riders’ bags.

Troche was pleased by the move but demanded more.

“All five boroughs, not only Manhattan. Everywhere. You need to deploy not only in Times Square, [but] all five boroughs,” he said.

Otherwise, he warned, vigilantes will have to “come out” and deal with the ongoing crime just like he did.

And it appears he was 100 percent right!