Charges Dropped Against Suspected Park Slope Subway Groper!

(Back to square six!)

The guy arrested for allegedly grabbing a woman's breasts, exposing himself and masturbating in Park Slope's 7th Avenue subway station has gotten off. On Monday morning Joshua Flecha, a bartender at the Heartland Brewery in midtown, was arrested because police believed he matched one of the many sketches of deviants believed to be behind a series of sexual assaults in South Brooklyn. But now the sexual assault charges have been dropped.

Around 3:15 a.m. Monday, Flecha was spotted by cops who thought he might be trying to break into cars in Windsor Terrace. But according to the police, he was just watching porn on his cell phone with his pants unzipped while in possession of marijuana and a bottle of Jack Daniels. You know, just another wild Sunday night in the W.T.!

The victim of the May 7th subway attack picked him out of a lineup, but now she says she's not sure he's the one who assaulted her, and the Post reports that she's no longer cooperating with the investigation. Flecha, who was reportedly raised as Jehovah's witness on Long Island, was put in a lineup for victims of five similar subway attacks, but none of them could ID him either.

His former roommate, who's known him for eight years, tells the Post, "He was very short tempered, like a drunk." And Flecha’s ex-mother-in-law told says her daughter, a devout Jehovah’s Witness, divorced him a decade ago. "He was a porn addict, and he had that problem with the ‘open zipper,’ [if] you know what I mean," she tells the tabloid. "He was heavily into it."

But it appears he's not the groper! Just a private citizen whose embarrassing life as a porn addict and short-tempered drinker has been exposed. Also, ladies—who have been telling the media, "I'm glad they got him and I hope he learns something from whatever they're able to do with him"—you'll have to go back to being worried in addition to being outraged by the opposite sex.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 19, 2011 5:24 PM

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swampyankeesmom

well, at least he got off!
hiyoooo!

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TheApache

My question to this poor example of an writer is: when the real groper is caught will this paper tell us what religion he is currently practicing and /or raised from? This guy hasn't been associated with the JW's probably since his divorce, and maybe longer than that, and yet he made a big deal of his "supposed" conections to this religion! (no facts there except his ex-wife from 10 years ago is one of them at the present) Will they tell where he works and maybe even where he lives?

JJ2014

If he was reared as a Jehovah's Witness, then he is as messed up as if he had been reared by child molestors. The effects did not disappear when he exited the CULT, anymore than the effects of child abuse would have disappeared after leaving the home of the abusers.

ronshapley

Come on Gothamist.........respond to these legitimate complaints and concerns... If you're man enough !!!!

soxinthecity

Note to self:

Don't order any drinks with ice at the Heartland Brewery.

loaddown

Is the reporter alluding that this reject learned his perversion from his religion? Since when does that have relevancy in a news article? Was this going on at his church? Good thing he wasn't Catholic, the comments would have really been flying!

getDange

"He was very short tempered, like a drunk." - drunks are short tempered?? I never knew that.

M

Why are you posting the name of someone who didn't do it?

Wasn't picked out of a lineup after all. No evidence. God forbid any of us end up on the wrong end of Gothamist's lazy journalism.

That is wrong and the lowest form of so called "journalism" new low Gothamist. You are making the Post look like the NY Times.

Detex

Why are you posting his name and where he works if the cops don't think he did it? Am I the only one who finds this completely wrong?

Kimberley Truelove

I agree. Why not post the name and information about the woman who wrongly accused this man of sexual assault?

Yojimbot

apparently hes on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/Yojimb...

delicats

A few of his favorite TV shows:

"Cold Case"
"How I Met Your Mother"
"Law & Order"
"Fairly Legal"

virgilstarkwell

"The guy arrested for allegedly grabbing a woman's breasts, exposing himself and masturbating in Park Slope's 7th Avenue subway station has gotten off."

well, that's usually what happens after groping and masturbating.