Crime & Safety

Man With Spider-Man Bag Masturbates On Sunset Park Train: NYPD

The man masturbated on an R train in Sunset Park last week while starring at a 24-year-old woman, police said.

SUNSET PARK, NY — A creep holding a Spider-Man backpack on his lap masturbated on a Sunset Park subway last week while staring at a female straphanger, police said.

The 24-year-old woman was riding a Manhattan-bound R train at about 10 p.m. on April 26 when the man sat down across from her, the NYPD said.

The fedora-clad man started to masturbate while staring at the woman until he fled the subway in an unknown direction, police said.

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Police described the man as about 50-years-old, 170 pounds and 5-feet 9-inches tall. He was last seen wearing a white shirt, tan pants, brown jacket, blue and white shoes and a brown hat.

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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