Crime & Safety

Subway Perv Pees On Woman And Jumps On Her Back, Police Say

A subway perv peed on and attacked a woman on the subway, police said.

Cops are searching for this man.
Cops are searching for this man. (NYPD)

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY β€” Cops are searching for a subway perv who urinated on a woman and then jumped on her back earlier this summer on the subway, police said.

A man began masturbating next to a woman, 23, on a Manhattan-bound J train at 2 a.m. Sunday, June 16, police said.

The woman walked to the other side of the train to get away from the subway perv β€” but the man followed her and then urinated on her, police said.

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Police said the woman ran off the subway at the station at Delancey and Essex streets on the Lower East Side, and the man then jumped on her back.

The man ran off in an unknown direction and cops are still searching for him.

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The woman had minor injuries but declined medical attention at the station, police said.

Surveillance images of the man released by police show him leaving the station wearing a black shirt with a white logo, black pants and a black baseball hat.

Police said he is about 25- to 35-years-old and 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall with a thin build.

Anyone with information in regard 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).

All calls are strictly confidential.

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