He attacked 6 since 2011 in Qns. park: cops

A MYSTERY MAN who raped one woman and tried to sexually assault five others — all in the same Queens park — has finally been identified and arrested, four years after the last crime, police said Thursday.

Michael Andrade, 45, was arrested Wednesday and charged with attacking a 24-year-old woman in March 2013.

Andrade stun-gunned and robbed the victim after encountering her, like the other women, jogging along the bridle path in Forest Park, according to Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.

This victim, Boyce said, fought back and helped nab the accused creep.

“This one young lady struggled with him and actually pulled a beer (bottle) out of his back pocket and then threw it,” Boyce said. “We retrieved that beer bottle as part of the crime scene. That’s where we swabbed and got the DNA.

“That’s how we identified him.”

DNA was recovered in another sexual attack, Boyce said, and detectives hope to charge Andrade in that case, plus the four others.

Andrade’s mother, with whom he lived in Richmond Hill until recently, defended him.

“He wouldn’t do anything like that,” said Martha Andrade, 80. “He’s a good man.”

The string of attacks — which started in March 2011 and ended when a 69-year-old woman was raped after she was zapped with a Taser in August 2013 — stumped police for years.

Andrade has six arrests on his record, one in the city and five on Long Island, but most did not allow police to obtain a DNA sample from him.

The one that did, for grand larceny in Rockville Centre on Feb. 25, 2015, proved to be his undoing, police said. Charged with stealing copper from utility poles, Andrade pleaded guilty and got five years’ probation, according to a spokesman for the Nassau County office.

Earlier this week, Boyce said, the DNA from that case was linked to the DNA from two of the Queens attacks.

Prosecutors said Andrade was on probation and recently released from a psychiatric remand in Suffolk County.

As police led him from the 112th Precinct stationhouse Thursday afternoon, Andrade kept his head down and said nothing.

He was equally stone-faced as he was ordered held on $2 million bond or $500,000 cash bail at his arraignment on charges that included attempted rape, robbery, assault and weapons possession. district attorney’s