Crime & Safety
Groper Grabs Teenager's Buttocks On Brooklyn D Train, Police Say
Police are looking for a man with three teardrop tattoos on his face who assaulted a teenager on a D train in Bed-Stuy.
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — Police are searching for the large, tattooed man who groped a 16-year-old girl on a D train in Brooklyn.
The 60-year-old man snuck up to the teenager on a Manhattan-bound train between the 36th Street and Atlantic Avenue stations around 7:10 a.m. on Nov. 6, said police.
The suspect — whom police believe to be Ruben Pena — suddenly grabbed the girl’s buttocks, police said.
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The girl snapped a photo of her assailant before he dashed away at the Atlantic Avenue station, said police.
The suspect stands about 5-foot-7, weighs about 230 pounds, sports a mustache and three teardrop tattoos below his left eye, police said.
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Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.
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