PALO ALTO — Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at knifepoint near the downtown transit center earlier this month.
A woman went to the Newark Police Department on Wednesday to report an attack that took place Nov. 4 in Palo Alto, according to police. Palo Alto police then interviewed the woman and launched an investigation.
She reported that around 7:30 p.m. that evening, she was waiting for a bus at the transit center on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto when a man asked her to translate a conversation with another man in the vicinity.
After following the man, she told police that there was no second person and that the man “gestured toward a knife clipped to his pants pocket and threatened to harm” her if she did not obey him.