{"id":363820,"date":"2026-10-03T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363820\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:08:50","slug":"news-12-bronx-alleged-serial-groper-arrested-in-connection-with-bronx-forcible-touching-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363820\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Alleged Serial Groper Arrested In Connection With Bronx Forcible Touching Incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man is facing a slew of charges in connection with multiple forcible touching incidents and a robbery in the Bronx, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Scott C. Hanes, 32, of the Claremont section of the Bronx, was arrested at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released a photo of Hanes on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said he was on the run for a Sept. 22 groping and robbery incident that happened in front of 1692 Monroe Ave. Here, Hanes allegedly grabbed a 40-year-old woman&#8217;s buttocks and stole her headphones as well as $1.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say they linked Shane to additional incidents of forcible touching before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He faces forcible touching, robbery, sexual abuse and harassment charges.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD is expected to provide details about the new alleged crimes at Shane&#8217;s prisoner transport on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is a developing story. Stay with News 12 for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing a slew of charges in connection with multiple forcible touching incidents and a robbery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-363820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363820","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=363820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}