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Nearly two weeks after a violent robber began attacking Asian residents of East Harlem, the authorities arrested a man today aboard an interstate bus in southern New Jersey, the authorities said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Police Department had made catching the robber one of its priorities, deploying additional officers into the neighborhood, assigning Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking officers to talk to people in the community and papering the area with fliers in multiple languages.<\/strong> They identified Jason Commisso, 34, as a suspect over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The string of mostly daytime crimes followed a brutal pattern, the police said: a single robber would follow men and women \u2014 all of Asian descent, most over 40 \u2014 as they entered apartment buildings.<\/strong> He then shadowed them into elevators, where he would repeatedly punch them in the face before making off with their belongings. At least eight people have been attacked, the police said.<\/p>\n

The apparent singling out of one ethnic group led to the involvement of the department\u2019s hate crimes unit<\/strong>, though Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly cautioned late last week that it had not yet been established that the robberies were hate crimes.<\/p>\n

The first attack came at 8 a.m. on Jan. 17. A 44-year-old Asian woman, who was not identified by the police, entered a residential building elevator and was assaulted, suffering injuries to her face. The assailant robbed her of a bag that contained several credit cards.<\/p>\n

The last attack occurred a little after 10 a.m. on Saturday, shortly before local elected officials held a rally condemning the robberies and warning residents to be alert. The robber broke the nose of a 57-year-old Asian man and stole his cellphone and wallet, the police said.<\/p>\n

Lt. Stephen Jones of the New Jersey State Police said state troopers and New York City detectives removed Mr. Commisso from a southbound Greyhound Bus at the side of the New Jersey Turnpike near Philadelphia.<\/strong> Mr. Commisso was being held by New Jersey authorities pending extradition to New York, Lieutenant Jones said.
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