Crime & Safety

Perv Gropes 52-Year-Old Woman On Train In Queensboro Plaza: NYPD

The woman managed to snap a photo of the man who grabbed her butt on the Queens-bound train, cops say.

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS -- Police are searching for a perv who groped a 52-year-old woman on a subway ride into Queensboro Plaza.

The woman was riding a 7 train into Queens on May 10 at around 3:10 p.m. when a man whom she'd never met grabbed her butt and lower back, cops said.

The NYPD released a photo Friday afternoon that the woman managed to take of her alleged groper before he fled the train at the Queensboro Plaza subway station in Long Island City.

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Police described the man as around 5-foot-6 and in his thirties.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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(Lead photo via NYPD)

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