Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly chatted up a woman on Queens Boulevard. When she told him to leave her alone, he grabbed her and carried her into the 7 train station at 46th Street and Queens Boulevard, according to authorities.
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Police from the 108th Precinct are looking for a suspect who subjected a woman to unlawful imprisonment in broad daylight at a Sunnyside 7 train station on Monday, April 20.
Police say the 23-year-old victim was walking along Queens Boulevard when a stranger began harassing her at around 5:30 p.m. The woman was having none of the small talk and told him to beat it, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. The stranger grew angry at the rejection and as the victim attempted to walk away, the perpetrator physically restrained her from fleeing, police said.
The suspect grabbed her hand and picked her up and carried her across Queens Boulevard onto the Bliss Plaza pedestrian space where no one attempted to intervene, according to authorities. He then ascended the stairs into the 46th Street-Bliss Street 7 train station above the plaza. Inside the station, the victim screamed at him to put her down or she was going to call the police, the law enforcement source added. The suspect complied and put her down before running out of the station onto Queens Boulevard and then fled on foot in an unknown direction. The woman was not injured during the encounter.
The NYPD released a surveillance image of the suspect and described him as having a light complexion with dark hair. He wore a black leather jacket, black pants and black sneakers.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest and indictment.
Anyone with information regarding this unlawful imprisonment investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are strictly confidential.
Through April 26, the 108th Precinct reported 13 transit crimes so far in 2026, 13 fewer than the 26 reported at the same point last year, a decline of 50%, according to the latest CompStat report.