A 15-year-old girl was groped as she walked in Downtown Flushing by a man riding a stand-up scooter on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 14.
Police from the 109th Precinct are looking for a suspect who approached the victim as she was walking in the vicinity of Main Street and 39th Avenue just before 9:30 a.m. and touched her rear end before riding away southbound on Main Street toward Roosevelt Avenue a block away. The girl was not injured during the encounter, police said.
The NYPD released a surveillance image of the creep with a beard and mustache. He wore a black bubble jacket over a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding this forcible touching investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
Through Nov. 24, the 109th Precinct has reported 93 sex crimes so far in 2024, three more than the 90 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 3.3%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
