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Man Masturbated in Front of Woman on R Train, Police Say

By Ben Fractenberg | September 19, 2016 3:08pm
 Police are looking for a man they said was masturbating on an R train in Queens on Sept. 12, 2016.
Police are looking for a man they said was masturbating on an R train in Queens on Sept. 12, 2016.
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QUEENS — A man was caught masturbating on an R train in Queens last Monday evening, police said.

A 24-year-old woman was on the train on Sept. 12 at about 7:20 p.m. when she noticed that a man sitting across from her was fondling himself while he had a black backpack on his lap, according to the NYPD.

She then took a picture of him before getting off the train at Roosevelt Avenue.

The man is about 36 years old, 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds. He was last seeing wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, tan boots and a black backpack.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).