Man Grabs Woman's Butt In Bed-Stuy Elevator: Cops

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Cops are looking for a man they say sexually harassed a woman in her Bed-Stuy apartment building.

According to police, the suspect went into an elevator with the woman at around 1 a.m. on Feb. 8 and "grabbed her buttocks." The woman, 40, fought off the assailant and got out of the elevator, and then the suspect fled the building in an unknown direction, police said. The incident occurred in her building at Chauncey Street and Stuyvesant Avenue, according to the NYPD. For the latest on Bed-Stuy crime, subscribe to the Bed-Stuy Patch.

Police describe the suspect as a black man, 20 to 25 years old, 5-foot-6-inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black hooded sweater, black jacket, dark pants, black sneakers and a backpack with wings and a picture of a pigeon holding a coffee cup on it.

Anyone with information in regards to 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 at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

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