NYPD Looking for Brooklyn Q Train Molester

The suspect. Photo courtesy of the NYPD

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for a man who they say forcibly touched a 54-year-old woman aboard a northbound Q Train over the weekend.

The incident occurred around 7:20 a.m. Sunday near the Prospect Park station in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens, police said.

The suspect was seated next to the victim, police said, when he reached over and touched her. He then fell asleep — allowing the victim was able to snap his photograph before she exited at the 14th Street-Union Square station in Manhattan, according to the NYPD.

Detectives described the suspected molester as between 25 and 30 years old. He has an afro and was last seen wearing a black jacket with grey sleeves, grey jeans and black sneakers, police said.

Anyone with information on the suspect or the crime can tip off police via the NYPD's Crime Stoppers website or by calling the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. Spanish speakers can call 1-888-57-PISTA.