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Subway Groper Touches Woman At UWS Train Station: NYPD

Police reported that a man from the Upper West Side was arrested this week for a forcible touching incident on a train platform.

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Police reported that a man from the Upper West Side was arrested this week for a forcible touching incident on a train platform.
Police reported that a man from the Upper West Side was arrested this week for a forcible touching incident on a train platform. (Peter Senzamici/Patch)

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A 43-year-old man was arrested late last week after police say he groped a woman on a southbound A train platform in the Upper West Side.

Jermaine Longmire was apprehended by the Manhattan Special Victims Unit at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, accused of forcibly touching a 27-year-old woman who was waiting for the train, police said.

Longmire, who resides in a NYCHA building on West 104th Street between Columbus and Manhattan avenues, was arrested on similar charges on March 4 and last June, according to public records.

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He entered a plea of not guilty in both of those cases.

Police reported that a man from the Upper West Side was arrested this week for a forcible touching incident on a train platform. (NYPD)
Longmire has been officially charged with forcible touching and sex abuse, court records show.

The Manhattan Special Victims Squad is requesting that any persons who may have experienced any harm by this perpetrator to please contact us at 212-694-3000 or the Special Victims Division at 646-610-7272.

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