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Man Gropes Woman After Following Her Into Apartment Building, Police Say

By Shaye Weaver | June 16, 2016 12:31pm
 Police said this man entered a residential building on East 85th Street and touched a woman's chest over her clothes.
Police said this man entered a residential building on East 85th Street and touched a woman's chest over her clothes.
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UPPER EAST SIDE — A man followed a woman into her East 85th Street apartment building and groped her chest on Tuesday, according to the NYPD.

The 26-year-old victim was walking into her East 85th Street apartment building at about 2:48 p.m., when the suspect came up to her in the mailroom area and touched her chest over her clothes, police said.

Surveillance video shows the man walking into the building's mail room and walking out after the incident.

He's seen wearing a jacket with the hood pulled over his baseball cap. Police describe the suspect as about 25 years old, standing 5-foot-5 and weighing roughly 160 pounds.

Anyone with information about this incident 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.