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Bus Perv Touched Woman Near Parkchester


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 12, 2023


BRONX - A Bronx woman sleeping on a bus on New Year’s Day awoke to find a perv touching her while masturbating. Police released surveillance video from inside the bus in the hopes of catching the suspect. 


At around 11 am on January 1, a 23-year-old woman was napping on a Q44 bus near Metropolitan Avenue and Hugh Grant Circle. She woke to find a man touching her thigh and masturbating.




The suspect jumped off the bus and fled on foot. But not before the suspect’s image was caught on surveillance video. Now cops are asking for the public’s help in locating this man.




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). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/

or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.




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