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Nov 10, 2005 7:31 am US/Eastern

Police Identify Fake Firefighter Suspect

Man Wanted In Sex Attack Case

NEW YORK (AP) ― New York City Police have officially named the man they want to talk to in connection with a phony fireman forcing his way into an apartment and sexually assaulting a woman on Halloween night.

Police say 41-year-old Peter Braunstein is wanted for questioning.

The tabloid newspapers have named Braunstein for days as the chief suspect in the case.

Braunstein was an editor at a woman's magazine. He has been missing since Halloween when a 34-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her apartment.

Police say a fake fireman set a small fire in a hallway outside a woman's apartment so she would open the door.

Police said the attack happened at 6 p.m. Halloween night in Chelsea.

Officials reported that the fake fireman knocked on the door of the woman saying there was a fire in the hallway. When she opened the door, the attacker put a cloth soaked with a chemical over her face -- knocking her out.

She was then bound with duct tape and repeatedly sexually assaulted over a 12-hour period.

Police said they've recovered the gas mask that the attacker had over his face.

(© 2005 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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