Police: Fake Public Utility Worker Sexually Assaults Jersey City Woman
"She was able to fight him off. He ran out and ran into the street," said Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey.
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"She was able to fight him off. He ran out and ran into the street," said Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey.
Police said the suspect walked up behind the woman and grabbed her buttocks last Friday around 11:15 a.m. in Jamaica.
The suspect followed a 47-year-old woman off a bus near 140 Avenue and Coombs Street on Dec. 24 around 6:40 p.m. and then sexually assaulted her, police said.
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