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Police On The Hunt For An Upper East Side Serial Groper
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 16, 2011
Modified Jul 16, 2011
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Police believe there is a serial groper who they say may have attacked at least seven different women this year all on the Upper East Side. The latest attack occurred early this morning, when the perp followed the 29-year-old woman as she entered an apartment building on East 88th Street and First Avenue at 5:45 a.m., cornered her, and reached under her dress.
She was able to fight him off, but the similarities between the incident and some of the others have led police to believe they may be dealing with the same person. Last Wednesday, the same man grabbed a woman's buttocks on East 85th Street at East End Avenue. The attacks, which have been reported since January 5th, have all taken place late at night and early mornings throughout the 19th precinct, which stretches from 59th to 96th streets, from Central Park to the East River.
Cops described the suspect as a Latino male between the ages of 25 and 30 who is 4-foot-11, 120 pounds and has black hair—and he was last seen wearing a black turtleneck, in summer. So everyone be on the lookout for a really really short guy in a turtleneck who isn't Paul Simon.
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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