Crime & Safety

Biker Creeps Up On Female Pedestrians

Police blotter from the HPD.

Hoboken police are investigating two cases where a biker allegedly pinched women's butts in the street.

The first occurance took place on Friday June 10, around 10:45 p.m. on the 500 block of Observer Highway, according to police. A 29-year-old Hoboken woman told the police that an unknown man on a mountain bike "grabbed her buttocks area from behind," according to a police report.

Police said the man—who remains unknown at this time—used a "scoop motion" and touched the woman's leg, under the brown skirt she was wearing.

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The woman told police that the biker fled uptown on Madison Street, according to police. She described him as white or Hispanic, about 5-foot-8 and roughly 165 pounds, police said. The woman never saw the man's face.

The second incident of criminal sexual contact occured on Sunday June 12, a little before 10:30 p.m. at Fourth and Clinton Streets, according to a police report. A 55-year-old Hoboken woman

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That woman told Hoboken Police that the man was thin built he rode his mountain bike and grabbed her from the rear, according to a report. "She chased him for a short distance before calling police," the report stated also.

Hoboken police believe the man in the two separate incidents is one and the same.

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