Here’s another one for the Subway Creep Hall of Shame.
Police released on Friday a cellphone picture of a man who allegedly smacked a woman in the rear end on an escalator at a subway station in Jamaica earlier this month.
The incident occurred at 6:30 p.m. on May 6, when the suspect — described as a white male in his 30s standing 5 foot 9 inches tall, with brown hair and a goatee — rode an escalator with a 23-year-old woman inside the Jamaica Center station on the J/Z line.
Authorities said the suspect approached the woman from behind and smacked her in the buttocks. The victim pulled out her cellphone and snapped the image of the suspect before she left the station; the perpetrator remained at the location.
Police said the suspect was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and tan pants.
It was the latest in a series of X-rated incidents at stations or on board subway trains arriving in Jamaica, from male train riders flashing their genitals at female commuters to one man asking a woman for a buck or oral sex.
Anyone with information regarding the May 6 incident or the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
