Crime & Safety

Flatbush Bus Groper Grabs Teenaged Girl, Cops Say

Police are looking for the man who forcibly touched a 16-year-old girl on a Brooklyn MTA bus.

EAST FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN -- Police are looking for the man who groped a teenaged girl on an MTA bus last month.

The 16-year-old girl was molested on an eastbound B103 bus by a man who boarded near Utica Avenue and Avenue H at about 4:55 p.m. on Dec. 3, police said.

The man forcibly touched the girl then got off the bus just six blocks later, at East 56th Street, police said.

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Police released photos of the suspect — whom they describe as a man in his 20s, standing about 5-foot 6-inches and last seen wearing a black and yellow jacket — Wednesday night.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.

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