Police search for man who groped woman through open window in Brooklyn

Sunday, May 20, 2018
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police are searching for the man they say grabbed a woman through her bedroom window in Brooklyn.

Video shows the suspect walking on the first floor rooftop of a building on Clarkson and Rogers Avenues in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The rooftop wraps all the way around the building.

Brooklyn woman groped through window

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Police say he reached into the woman's open window at about 4:40 a.m. May 12 and groped the 21-year-old while she was sleeping.

He then told her he was a police officer and asked if he could get into her bed, police said.

The suspect ran off after the woman screamed.
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There were no reported injuries.



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