Police: Man Groped Multiple Women In And Around Times Square Disney Store
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police on Tuesday were searching for a man who allegedly grabbed women's buttocks multiple times in the subway and in the Disney Store in Times Square between December and March.
Police said the man first grabbed a 22-year-old woman around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, as the woman walked from 1540 Broadway – the building once known as the Bertelsmann Building, to the R Train station at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, police said.
The man then struck a second time around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, inside the Disney Store in the same building, police said.
The man tried to grab another woman's buttocks inside the very same Disney Store around 10:45 p.m. Thursday, March 19, police said.
The suspect was described as a black male around 25 years old, standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 230 pounds.
Anyone with information in the other incidents was asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS, log onto the Crime Stoppers website, or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and enter TIP577.