{"id":277030,"date":"2026-06-24T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277030\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:51:37","slug":"elderly-man-allegedly-groped-15-year-old-girl-on-mta-q44-bus-in-flushing-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277030\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man allegedly groped 15-year-old girl on MTA Q44 bus in Flushing: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly groped a 15-year-old girl on a bus in Flushing. <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n

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Police from the 109th Precinct<\/a> in Flushing<\/a> are looking for a suspect who allegedly subjected a 15-year-old girl to sexual abuse onboard an MTA Q44 bus on Thursday, June 11.<\/p>\n

Police say the teen was standing on the bus as it approached the intersection of Main Street and Horace Harding Expressway when a stranger stood next to her and proceeded to touch and rub her body. The suspect ran off the bus and fled in an unknown direction. The victim was not injured during the encounter.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe sexual abuse incident took place on an MTA Q44 bus on Main Street and Horace Harding Expressway in Flushing.QNS file photo<\/p>\n

The NYPD released a surveillance image of the suspect and described him as having a light complexion. He is approximately 60 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches tall and around 165 pounds with a medium build, short salt and pepper hair and a white mustache. He was last seen wearing a maroon polo shirt, black pants, a black baseball cap, black-rimmed eyeglasses and a black book bag.<\/p>\n

A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest and indictment.\n<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this sexual abuse investigation is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s 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<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n

Through June 21, the 109th Precinct has reported 39 sex crimes so far in 2026, two more than the 37 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 5.4%, according to the most recent CompStat report. Transit crimes are way down in the precinct with eight reported so far this year, 14 fewer than the 22 reported at the same point in 2025, a decline of 63.6%, according to CompStat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly groped a 15-year-old girl on a bus in Flushing. Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10392,9182,9,24,63,106491,122,124,123,5474],"class_list":["post-277030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-109th-precinct","tag-groping","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-q44-bus","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}