NEW YORK — A man has been arrested for grinding his crotch, a form of sexual abuse, on an undercover female police detective when she was in plain clothes on a New York Subway.
The New York Daily News reported that Felipe Mondragon, 52, was on a train that left Union Square when he reportedly began grinding his crotch on the undercover detective’s thigh. The officer was wearing plain clothes as part of an operation when the incident occurred.
Mondragon was immediately arrested and charged with forcible touching and sex abuse.
The detective is a part of the New York Police Department’s Transit Bureau’s Anti-Crime Squad, which is responsible for patrolling subways in the area and preventing crime.