A “threat to women in the subway stations” was arraigned Saturday after cops said he rubbed his groin against someone on a Manhattan express train.
Mutahar Elhosheshi, 33, was charged with forcible touching on a train and sexual abuse in the third degree in Manhattan Criminal Court after police busted him for allegedly grinding against a woman on the subway, prosecutors said.
Elhosheshi was on the northbound express train from Union Square at about 9:00 a.m. Friday morning when he was observed rubbing up against a fellow straphanger, cops said.
“As the north-bound train left 14th Street to Grand Central Station [Elhosheshi] began grinding [on the victim] and touching her buttocks,” Assistant District Attorney Alireza Khazey told the judge.
When the train pulled into the station at Lexington Ave and E. 42nd Street, the 35-year-old woman ran to cops on the platform and reported the creep. He was arrested within minutes, police said.
Elhosheshi protested, denying that he had touched the victim. But cops say the Brooklyn native has a history of groping women — in 2015, he was arrested for the same offense in Midtown, for which he served 20 days in jail, prosecutors said.
“Your Honor, this defendant is a threat to women in the subway stations,” Khazey told the judge. “[He] clearly decided not to stop victimizing women even after serving jail time.”
He requested for $3,000 bail, which the judge granted.
The incident, the latest in a string of lewd subway attacks, comes just a few weeks after Governor Cuomo said he would support banning serial subway perverts from riding the rails.
“If you are convicted of two sexual offenses on the subway system … I fully support saying after the second conviction you are banned from going back through the subway,” he said.
Elhosheshi is expected to appear in court again on April 11.



