Yoga instructor busted in connection to serial groping attacks in NYC

Cops busted a 37-year-old yoga instructor in connection to the sickening spree of groping attacks by a moped-rider in Manhattan, law enforcement sources told The Post Saturday.

Detectives from the Manhattan Special Victims Squad busted suspect James White, Friday afternoon around 5 p.m. near Grand and Forsyth streets in the Lower East Side, police sources said.

White was allegedly behind six of the nine attacks â€" including one with 11-year-old victim â€" that began Aug. 2, at Sixth Avenue and West 50th Street. The last reported attack was Monday in the East Village, cops said.

White is suspected of six different groping attacks â€" including one involving an 11-year-old girl.DCPI

“He was wearing a mask and a hoodie and looking at the women walking around,” said a law-enforcement source. “It’s a good thing he was arrested especially now that school is opening and there will be a lot more young women walking in the area.”

In each case, the suspect rolled up to his victims on a red and black moped, and grabbed their breasts without uttering a word. White owns a moped that is similar to one seen in surveillance images, police sources said.

White, of Manhattan, was charged with sex abuse in the first degree, endangering the welfare of a minor regarding one case involving an 11 year old and six counts of forcible touching, said Sergeant Jonathan Cruz of the Manhattan’s Special Victims Squad.

Source: NYPOST

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