MANHATTAN — A registered sex offender was busted after rubbing against a woman on a 5 train in East Harlem, officials said.
Rodney Pierre, 50, who has five prior sex crime arrests dating back to 1992, boarded the train at 125th Street Thursday at about 5 p.m. and rubbed his groin against the woman’s buttocks, prosecutors and an NYPD spokesman said.
The woman moved away from the man and he then tried to follow her before an officer on the train busted him.
He was charged with misdemeanor forcible touching and sexual abuse.
Pierre was arraigned on Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court and held on $5,000 bail.
He is due back in court on Dec. 13.
His lawyer did not return an immediate request for comment.