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Man Caught Grinding Against Women on 7 Train by Police, NYPD Says

By Katie Honan | May 19, 2016 1:59pm
 The suspect allegedly pressed up against two women on a busy 7 train, police said. 
The suspect allegedly pressed up against two women on a busy 7 train, police said. 
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JACKSON HEIGHTS — Two police officers riding the 7 train arrested a man they spotted grinding up against female straphangers, according to the NYPD.

Mohamed H. Mohamed, 64, who lives on Hazen Street in East Elmhurst, allegedly pressed his body up against a 36-year-old woman near the 52nd Street stop on the 7 at around 4:20 p.m on Wednesday, police said.

As the train continued, he moved on to a 15-year-old girl — alternating between the two women before they'd try to move away, according to the NYPD 

Officers Gregory Perpall and Jaipaul Ramdat, working on the anti-crime patrol, witnessed Mohamed harassing the two women, and approached him at the 74th Street station in Jackson Heights. 

He was removed from the train and later charged with two counts of forcible touching, sex abuse, harassment, and one count of reckless endangerment of a child.