Suffolk DA: Honduran accused of rape, beating after Amityville attack
A Honduran man with four illegal entries and three prior expulsions was accused of raping and beating a man unconscious behind an Amityville dumpster. He was later captured in Texas as he allegedly fled toward Mexico.
A Suffolk County indictment has turned an Amityville dumpster into the center of a cross-border public-safety case, with prosecutors accusing Jose Ignacio Bonilla-Garcia of raping and brutally beating a man unconscious outside Esperanza Deli Café, then fleeing Long Island on a Greyhound bus before authorities caught him in Texas.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Bonilla-Garcia, 32, was indicted April 27 on first-degree rape and second-degree assault charges. Prosecutors said the victim first encountered him at the Amityville deli at about 11:43 p.m. on March 27, 2026. Around 4 a.m., after the victim, who was intoxicated, collapsed outside, Bonilla-Garcia allegedly dragged him behind a dumpster, raped him while he was unconscious, then punched him and beat him with a large piece of wood until he was unresponsive again.
A delivery driver found the victim hours later and called 911. The victim was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he underwent treatment and a sexual assault examination, and forensic evidence was recovered. Investigators also said surveillance video captured the assault, giving prosecutors a record of what happened outside the Amityville business and helping build the case that followed.
Bonilla-Garcia allegedly left Suffolk County immediately after the attack and traveled on a Greyhound bus. The U.S. Marshals Service’s Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Fugitive Task Force later apprehended him near Richmond, Texas, on April 4, 2026, while he was allegedly trying to flee to Mexico. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it lodged a detainer with the Fort Bend County Jail that same day.
The immigration history attached to the case has deepened its local significance. ICE said Bonilla-Garcia illegally entered the United States at least four times and had been expelled three times in 2020 under Title 42 before re-entering again at an unknown time and place. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said his office, Suffolk County Police, the Fort Bend District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Marshals helped bring the defendant to justice, underscoring how a violent assault in Amityville became a test of coordination between local police, county prosecutors, federal fugitive agents and immigration authorities across state lines.
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