Man Accused Of Peering Into North Station Women's Bathroom Stall

BOSTON — After Disney on Ice show finished Friday night, plenty of people headed for the MBTA restroom at North Station — including one man who police said made his way into the women's room and was trying to look over and under the stalls while women and children were trying to use the toilets.

Police arrested Angel Hernandez-Flores, 37, of East Boston. He will face annoying and accosting and disorderly conduct charges.

Around 9: 20 p.m. Friday someone from inside the women's bathroom at North station called police to report a man was in there and was refusing to leave.

When Transit Police got there, they were met with a line of women and children waiting to use the restroom and expressing their anger the man was inside.

Officers went into the bathroom and began knocking on the stall door where the man, later identified as Hernandez-Flores was.

Officers said Flores was moving about as he tried to pull his pants up.

They asked Flores why he was in the women's restroom. He told them he was confused and didn't realize it was the women's restroom.

Police escorted him out of the bathroom, where witnesses told them that while inside the bathroom stall Flores was attempting to peer, both over and under, the partition wall while women and children were using the toilet.

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