A serial metropolis sicko who tried to kiss a feminine straphanger’s toes earlier than exposing himself was nabbed Tuesday, police stated.
Dexter Betancourt, 37, had approached his unsuspecting 30-year-old sufferer and tried to talk to her as she waited for a prepare on the 14th Avenue-Sixth Avenue station in Manhattan on June 18 round 1 a.m., in keeping with the NYPD.
When the stranger rejected his advances, the creep bent down and tried to smooch her toes, cops stated.
He then uncovered himself to her earlier than fleeing on a northbound L prepare, police stated.
Betancourt was caught on surveillance footage creepily licking his lips contained in the station at one level.
He was charged Tuesday with indecent publicity — and it wasn’t the primary time he focused girls, sources stated.
The perv has racked up 10 earlier arrests for assault, strangulation, forcible touching and resisting arrest, with lots of the incidents involving females.
In 2013, Betancourt threw a 27-year-old girl to the bottom earlier than choking and biting her within the face on an Higher East Aspect road, sources stated.
When police tried to cuff him, he tried to hit and spit on them, in keeping with sources.
Only a 12 months earlier, the creep grabbed a 25-year-old girl and threw her to the bottom. He then groped her, sources advised The Put up.
Each of his earlier victims had been strangers.
Betancourt additionally tried to punch a feminine cop within the face after which dragged her by the neck — tossing her to the bottom when she caught him smoking weed in December 2012, sources stated.
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It’s unclear how cops caught Betancourt on Tuesday.
He was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Felony Courtroom. The NYPD’s Particular Sufferer’s Unit for transit is predicated in Brooklyn.
