Crime & Safety
Subway Perv Gropes 19-Year-Old Girl In Jackson Heights: NYPD
The man grabbed the teen's butt once while waiting for an E train at the Jackson Heights station and again while on it, police said.
JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS -- Police are searching for the subway perv who groped a 19-year-old girl aboard an E train in Jackson Heights.
The teen was waiting for a Manhattan-bound E train inside the Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue subway station at around 10:20 a.m. on May 19 when the unknown man touched her butt and grabbed the shirt under her jacket, cops said.
The two separately boarded the train, but the man found his way back to the woman and groped her butt again, police said.
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She got off the train at the 42 Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal Station but the groper stayed onboard, authorities said.
The NYPD released a photo of the perv, who police described as a man in his late 30s or early 40s standing at about 5-foot-4.
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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)
Lead photo via NYPD
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