Crime & Safety
Teen Groped By Pervert Riding Scooter On Fifth Avenue: NYPD
The grope happened last week just steps from the Guggenheim Museum, police said.

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A teenaged woman was groped by a pervert riding a scooter along Museum Mile earlier this month, police said.
The sicko scooter wizzed by the 18-year-old victim 11 days ago as she was walking south on Fifth Avenue near East 89th Street at just before 4 p.m., according to officials.
Police said that the man, wearing a red baseball cap and riding a red scooter, grabbed the teen's rear — just steps from the Guggenheim Museum — and then sped off down Fifth Avenue.
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The teen was unharmed in the incident, officials said.
Officials shared an image of the suspected scooter sicko take just moments after the incident a few blocks down the street.
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Anyone with information in regard 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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