Man Groped 2 Women Within 20 Minutes on Subway: Police

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Police are searching for a man accused of groping two women within 20 minutes on the two different 1 trains traveling through the Upper West Side.

The men, who is currently unidentified, allegedly approached a 31-year-old woman on a southbound 1 train around 9:20 on Dec. 7 and groped her from behind, police told Patch. The man then fled the train when it entered the 96th Street station, police said.

About 20 minutes later, on a different southbound 1 train, the man struck again, police said. In the second attack the man groped a 19-year-old woman from behind before fleeing the train at the 72nd Street station, police told Patch.

The suspect (sketch included above) is in his 20s or 30s and was last seen wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans, police told Patch.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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