Crime & Safety

Perv Gropes 61-Year-Old Woman At 14th Street F Station: NYPD

A man grabbed the woman's breast before fleeing the subway station.

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Police are searching for a subway groper who grabbed a 61-year-old woman at a West Village F train station on June 11, officials said Friday.

The man jumped the turnstile to enter the 14th Street station at Sixth Avenue on the F line where he approached the woman inside the mezzanine area at 8:40 p.m., grabbing her breast before fleeing the station, police said.

Authorities describe the man as approximately 40-year-olds, 6-foot-tall and weighing about 190 pounds with dreadlocks. He was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black pants and black sneakers.

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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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