Suspect identified in brutal South Beach lifeguard-stand rape

DNA has linked a convicted burglar to a brutal night-time rape at a South Beach lifeguard stand in May.

Newly released court records show Blitz Santana Monestine, 29, is the chief suspect in the previously unpublicized attack. A second man remains unidentified.

Miami Beach detectives served a warrant recently to obtain a second DNA sample from Monestine, who is in a downtown federal detention center awaiting sentencing in an unrelated federal gun case.

So far, Monestine has not been charged with sexual battery as investigators await the results of the second DNA test.

According to a search warrant, the attack happened on May 5, when a woman in her 20s had just left the Club Duce Bar, at 222 14th St. The time: 4:30 a.m.

The woman admitted she was intoxicated at the time. But she remembered that a group of men outside the bar began to insult and scream at her, according to the warrant.

One of the men began walking with the woman toward the beach. At 17th Street, the man led her up the lifeguard stand. Suddenly, a cohort appeared and the men pinned her to the floor and began to rape her, according to the warrant.

Please stop, please stop. Please let me go, the woman told detectives she screamed.

If you scream you are going to die, she said one of the men told her.

One of the attackers choked her. She injured her hand as she fought, according to the search warrant filed in Miami-Dade circuit court by Miami Beach Detective Gustavo Sanchez.

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Suspect identified in brutal South Beach lifeguard-stand rape