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Thursday, 24 May 2012

Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- The NYPD is issuing a warning about a sexual predator on the loose in Brooklyn.

Surveillance video shows the man police say approached a woman walking near 16th Street and Fourth Avenue in Park Slope.

Police say he groped the woman and ran away.

The incident happened around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The suspect is described as in his 40s, about 5-foot-4 and wearing a red baseball cap and camouflage pants.

Some 20 women were sexually attacked around the neighborhood last year.

Detectives are trying to figure out if this case is linked to any similar incidents in the area last year.

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Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Police are looking for the suspects in two armed robberies in Queens.

Surveillance video from a business shows the three men on the street.

One of them had a black semi-automatic handgun.

They demanded cash and a cell phone from a woman, and later a man.

Both incidents happened on the evening of December 1 on Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria.

No one was injured.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance in the search for a sex assault suspect.

Police say the suspect, shown in the photo above, followed a woman into a building in Harlem on the evening of Tuesday, June 21st.

He then continued to follow the victim into the elevator where police say he sexually assaulted her.

The suspect is described as a male between the ages of 25 to 30, 5'11" and of medium build.

He was last seen wearing a stripped golf shirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES).

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