Surveillance Video Shows Teens On Bikes Groping Women
Updated Sunday, July 12 10:01 a.m.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are looking for a group of teenagers accused of riding their bikes past women and inappropriately grabbing them.
All incidents happened Friday between the hours of 7:50 a.m. and 9:10 a.m. in the downtown Brooklyn area.
A 33-year-old woman was walking in front of 122 Tillary St. around 7:50 a.m., when police say the teens rode up on their bicycles and grabbed her buttocks and breasts.
A few minutes later, at 7:55 a.m., another woman was walking into a diner at 234 Adams Street when one of the teens rode up, grabbed her buttocks and fled.
At about 8:30 a.m. on the same day, a 31-year-old woman was walking in the area of 625-627 Bergen St. when one of the teens rode up on his bicycle and grabbed her buttocks.
The final incident happened around 9:10 a.m. when a 29-year-old woman was walking in the area of Fifth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue when one of the teens rode up on his bicycle and grabbed her buttocks.
There were no reported injuries in any of the incidents. The suspects are all described as Hispanic teens.
On Sunday morning, police released additional surveillance photos of the suspects, spotted at the south pool of the World Trade Center memorial.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at www.NYPDCrimeStoppers.com or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
