Yesterday, an off-duty cop shot an ex-con with a long rap sheet during a confrontation at a Harlem subway station after two teenager girls accused him of groping them. Jacob Sanford, 22, is accused of groping the two teens on their buttocks in the subway station at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around noon yesterday. And in the ensuing struggle with the off-duty officer who arrested him, Sanford was himself shot in the butt. more ›

An off-duty cop shot and apprehended a suspected groper in a subway station in Harlem today. The shooting happened on the platform of an A train at the 125th Street station just after 12:30 p.m. According to the News, a mother screamed that her teen daughter had just been groped, and a second woman also came forward that she had been groped. The officer spotted the suspect sitting on a bench in front of the train: “As he approaches [the suspect] the officer identifies himself as a police officer,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. “A struggle ensues and one round is discharged from the officer’s gun, striking the suspect in the [buttocks].“ more ›

Cell phone cameras: bane of the modern groper, flasher and fondler! Just ask this guy, who is wanted by the police for allegedly making obscene gestures at and then forcibly groping a woman in Brooklyn on Wednesday. more ›

Police are searching for a Bronx man who went on a sexual assault spree on Thursday, groping six women in a six hour period. According to police, the victims ranged in age from 28 to 51, and the assaults took place in the Baychester and Soundview neighborhoods. more ›

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. more ›

With the scumbag or scumbags behind a string of sexual assaults in South Brooklyn still roaming the streets, more women are getting ready to defend themselves. Cops have made a couple of arrests, but investigators believe several suspects are responsible, and over the weekend the official tally of assaults that fit the pattern was raised to 20. On Sunday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined dozens of other women for a free self-defense class organized by the Center for Anti-Violence Education. Check out this photo of Quinn: our possible future mayor is ready to kick some butt. more ›

Oh for crying out loud, ANOTHER groping in Brooklyn? Yes, sadly, last night some deviant p.o.s. sexually assaulted a woman walking her dog in Windsor Terrace on 17th Street near Seventh Avenue, around 10 p.m. Police say the sick puppy sneaked up behind his victim, told her he had a knife, and felt her crotch. She screamed, he ran away, and the unidentified female joined the growing roster (13 or 14?) of victims—though investigators say it's too early to tell if this assault fits the pattern. more ›

Yesterday, the teen suspected to be the Upper East Side groper was arraigned on charges of sexual abuse, forcible touching and burglary. Suspect Jose Alfredo Perez Hernandez was picked out of a lineup by three victims yesterday, but at least four other victims failed to pick him out. And Hernandez's lawyer says the failed lineups "show the weakness of witness identification...Sometimes the wrong person is picked out." Is it possible that there are TWO pint-sized gropers terrorizing the UES? more ›

A 28-year-old woman was sexually assaulted around 10:30 p.m. last night near Central Park West and W 67th Street. Police say that the perp is a Hispanic male with spiky hair...and they believe it is the same Upper East Side serial groper who has been harassing women in Manhattan for the past eight months. Which leads us to ask: is the Upper East Side groper...evolving? more ›

This weekend, we saw a report that a female victim had been sexually assaulted by a 4'11" man at Lexington Avenue and E 59th Street, and suspected that the Upper East Side groper who has been terrorizing women in Manhattan for the past seven months had struck again. Police confirmed that he did attack that woman on Saturday, but that wasn't his only one this weekend—he also assaulted another woman in Harlem early Sunday morning. more ›

We just received a report that a female victim has been sexually assaulted by a man at Lexington Avenue and E 59th Street, "in transit system but outside the turnstile." According to the news wire, "Perp is a male hispanic about 4'11" wearing a black t shirt and jean shorts also has white head phones." Wait a minute...4'11" hispanic male...has the Upper East Side serial groper struck again? more ›

The cops may have successfully apprehended the Skateboarding Groper, but the Upper East Side groper who has been harassing women for months has proven elusive yet again. Cops officially ruled out Eusebio Molina, the man allegedly caught groping a woman in Central Park this week, as the serial groper. But they may have caught a break in the case when they captured the pint-sized suspect on surveillance camera! more ›

The Summer Of The Groper has been filled with all sorts of colorful characters, such as the pint-sized Upper East Side groper and the bicycle-riding Astoria groper. But none sounded as strange as the Skateboarding Groper who was reportedly arrested on the Upper West Side near Columbia University on Thursday. Police finally confirmed that Thomas McDonnell, 22, was arrested in a dramatic takedown that afternoon, after being accused of groping four women. more ›

As if the threat of terrorists on bicycles wasn't enough to keep you up at night, now there's a new two-wheeled threat: Gropers. At least one man, possibly two, have been biking around Queens, mainly in Astoria, and grabbing women's breasts and buttocks. At least 20 women say they were victims of similar incidents, and all of them were assaulted between 28th Avenue and Broadway and from 31st to 48th Streets. One woman, a 25-year-old who identified herself as Erin K., tells the Daily News a man "exposed himself and began masturbating as he rode by her at 7:30 a.m. last week." 7:30 a.m.! The early perv catches the worm, we guess. more ›

The police hunt for man who has been suspected of attacking at least seven women on the Upper East Side has residents on edge. One woman told WCBS 2, "I'm not going out at night, simple as that. Or I go out with friends." more ›

Yesterday, police released a sketch of a serial groper who they say may have attacked at least seven different women this year all on the Upper East Side. After an attack early Saturday morning on a 29-year-old woman, it seems the groper attempted to attack another woman early this morning. Heather wrote us with the story of her close encounter with the groper. Check it out below: more ›

Police believe there is a serial groper who they say may have attacked at least seven different women this year all on the Upper East Side. The latest attack occurred early this morning, when the perp followed the 29-year-old woman as she entered an apartment building on East 88th Street and First Avenue at 5:45 a.m., cornered her, and reached under her dress. more ›

A Ukrainian tourist pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually assaulting a flight attendant during a flight from London to JFK. 53-year-old Iurii Chumak, who as you can see here was sent over straight from Central Casting, was drinking straight from a bottle of Dewar's on the April 28th flight when the unidentified flight attendant bent over to pour coffee for another passenger near him. That's when Chumak seized the opportunity to slide his hand up her skirt, “grabbed her genital area” and “began to run his fingers back and forth." That Chumak—what a charmer! more ›

From the NY Post's NYPD Daily Blotter: "A shirtless creep was nabbed in Midtown after allegedly groping a number of women -- and a 9-year-old girl. Dennis Perry, 32, was wearing mesh shorts and no underwear when he began following female passers-by on Seventh Avenue between 32nd and 42nd streets at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday, cops said." He was charged with four counts of sexual abuse as well as forcible touching. more ›

More details about a Stamford, CT elementary school's terrible class trip, which involved a student's father being arrested for allegedly molesting some of the female students, have emerged. A 10-year-old girl told the Daily News that Tomas Manzano "came up to [her and her friend] and sat down, and started touching my friend and then he started touching me... I cried so much. I knew I had to go tell someone right away." more ›

City lifeguards have been getting nothing but bad press these days, but yesterday afternoon at a pool in Queens they came to the rescue of a young girl who was being sexually assaulted. Lifeguards at Fisher Pool in East Elmhurst were quick to respond when 20-year-old Julio Ajpacaja jumped in what locals call "a kids pool" around 4:30 and began groping a 13-year-old girl, asking her if she "wanted to play." Ajpacaja was pulled out and the cops were called in, eventually charging him with forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child. Paramedics examined the girl at the scene and witnesses say she was visibly shaken, but not seriously injured. One witness told WCBS 2, "That's sick, that's nasty, a grown man … what are you doing messing around with little kids?" more ›

The Brooklyn man who last spring struck a 73-year-old man in an altercation that would eventually prove fatal has gotten off merely with a sentence forcing him to go to anger management counseling. 29-year-old Ernest Cappello was only charged with misdemeanor assault for taking down Maris Veyberman after Cappello's girlfriend claimed that the Russian immigrant had groped her. Authorities believed Cappello's remorseful story that he had no intention of hurting the old man, but Veyberman's family is enraged due to some accounts of the incident. One neighbor told the News, "He punched two to three times. We were all screaming at him, 'Call the cops, call the cops.' The old man, he never expected anything. After the guy went down he gave him a kick with his foot and said, 'Piece of shit' and took off in his car." Cappello's lawyer said, "This is the worst thing that ever happened to him." more ›