Aug. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry

Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills are looking for a groper who targeted a woman riding on a bus in Woodhaven during the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 5.

The 28-year-old victim was aboard a Q53 MTA bus on Woodhaven Boulevard approaching Myrtle Avenue and Forest Park at 5:45 p.m. when a stranger allegedly stood behind her and forcibly grabbed her rear end, police said Thursday. The creep remained on the bus for more than a mile and a half when he exited the bus at the Penelope Avenue stop in Middle Village and fled on foot in an unknown direction. The woman was not injured during the encounter.

The NYPD released a surveillance image of the suspect and requested the public’s help in identifying him.

He is described as having a light complexion with short

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