UPPER WEST SIDE — Police arrested a man with a record of sexual abuse for thrusting his hips against a woman on a 3 train, they said.
Wilson Bradley, 59, of The Bronx, was arrested for forcibly touching the 24-year-old victim on a northbound 3 train and also charged with persistent sexual abuse, police said.
On Thursday at 5:38 p.m., two plainclothes transit police officers watched William Bradley, 59 — who they knew targeted female train passengers — closely follow a woman onto a northbound 3 train at the Times Square station, police said.
The officers, Lt. Luis Almonte and Officer Leslie Friday, boarded the train saw him repeatedly thrusting and gyrating his hips against the woman during a trip between the 42nd Street and the 72nd Street stations, police said.
Both Bradley and the woman got off the train at the 72nd Street station, where the officers arrested him after speaking to the victim, police said.
Bradley is a registered level-three sex offender who was convicted for forcible touching incidents in 2006 and 2007, according to police state records.
The 2006 incident involved Bradley forcibly touching a 30-year-old woman, while details about the 2007 incident were not available.
He was charged by police with persistent sexual abuse and forcible touching.
Information about Bradley's lawyer was not immediately available.
