Crime & Safety
Groping At Aberdeen Target Under Investigation
Police said two employees at Target in Aberdeen were groped, and officials are asking for help identifying the perpetrator.
ABERDEEN, MD — Police said two women working at the Aberdeen Target have been groped by a man in recent weeks. In the latest case, a man approached one employee and asked for help with scanning something.
Police said that as she reached to scan the merchandise, he groped her "in a sexual manner."
The groping occurred at 10:15 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, according to Aberdeen police.
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At the same store — at 1025 Middleton Road in Aberdeen — another employee told police that she had been groped two weeks earlier. Officers said they discovered the earlier case while investigating Monday's incident, since the employee had not previously reported it.
"The suspect’s description from the unreported groping was similar to the suspect’s description from this incident," police said in a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
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Anyone with information about the man pictured is asked to call Sgt. Tomlinson of the Aberdeen Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division at 410-272-2121.
Images from surveillance footage at Target provided by the Aberdeen Police Department.
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