Police On The Prowl For Soho Subway Groper

SOHO, NY — Police are searching for a man who grabbed a woman's crotch in an entrance to the Soho Canal Street station on July 9, police said Tuesday.

The groper approached the 30-year-old victim on a staircase leading into the Canal Street train station on the A, C and E lines just after 1 a.m. when he grabbed her privates, police said. The pervert fled toward the northeast corner of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue.

Police describe the man as 30-years-old, roughly 6-feet and 150-170 pounds with black hair. He was last spotted wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt over a white shirt, black pants, black shoes and carried ablack bag, authorities said.

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).

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