Crime & Safety

WATCH: Creep Exits Brooklyn Subway After Allegedly Molesting Fellow Rider

The alleged perv approached a 33-year-old woman, grabbed her buttocks and midsection over her clothes, then fled the train, police say.


EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — Police are searching for a man who they say forcibly touched a woman earlier this month inside a subway station in East New York, near the Bed-Stuy border.

Around 2:45 p.m. Feb. 8, a man approached the 33-year-old woman inside the Broadway Junction A Train station in East New York, grabbed her buttocks and midsection over her clothes, then fled in an unknown direction, according to the NYPD.

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Anyone with information regarding the suspect or the crime is asked to call the NYPD at 1-800-577-8477. Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577.

[Video courtesy of the NYPD]

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