Crime & Safety
Subway Pervert Tries To Film Woman In Union Square Bathroom: NYPD
The man stuck his hand under the stall of a public bathroom in the Union Square station while the victim used the bathroom, police said.
GRAMERCY, NY — Police are searching for the subway perv who stuck his cellphone in a public bathroom stall at Union Square while a woman was using the restroom, officials said.
A 28-year-old woman told police that while she was using the public bathroom at the Union Square subway station on July 10 at roughly 2:35 p.m. she spotted a hand holding a cellphone with its camera pointing up toward her, a police spokesman said.
The hand came from an adjacent bathroom stall, and when the victim went to confront the person beside her, she saw a man bolt from the bathroom. Authorities said the man fled the station at the East 14th Street and Broadway exit.
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Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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