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Woman Sexually Assaulted in Downtown Greenport

After being forced down a dead-end street and assaulted Wednesday night, a 48-year-old woman is in stable condition.

A woman on her way home was forced from a downtown Greenport parking lot to a nearby dead-end road and sexually assaulted on Wednesday night, according to Southold police.

Authorities said the 48-year-old woman was on her way home around 10:45 p.m. when she was approached by a white male in his 20s and forced from the Adams Street parking lot down to the end of Bay Avenue, where the assault occurred.

According to police, the woman was not seriously injured during the incident, and is in stable condition.

The attacker was described as roughly five-foot-five to five-foot-eight and 140 pounds, unshaven, wearing a white t-shirt and dark colored pants with a cigarette tucked behind his right ear.

The investigation remains open, and police are asking anyone with information about it to call headquarters at 631-765-2600. All calls will be kept confidential.


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