A Brooklyn man has been arrested for groping a protester at Zuccotti Park — and he could be linked to a similar sex crime at the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Tonye Iketubosin, 26, was collared after the 18-year-old victim, who claimed the creep sexually assaulted her a few days earlier, spotted him lurking near the encampment Tuesday night, police and witnesses said.
Iketubosin tried to enter the park, but protesters joined forces to bar him from getting inside, witnesses told the Daily News.
“He wasn’t violent, just persistent,†witness Haywood Carey said of Iketubosin’s effort to slip inside the encampment. “We locked arms to prevent him from coming into the community.â€
Police soon arrived and cuffed Iketubosin at the scene.
Cop sources say Iketubosin, of Crown Heights, had once volunteered with the Occupied Wall Street demonstrators.
Police later charged him with one count of sexual abuse. But a police source said investigators are considering whether Iketubosin is responsible for a similar crime that occurred previously in Zuccotti Park, which has been the Occupy Wall Street movement’s home base since mid-September.
Iketubosin was waiting to be arraigned early Wednesday night.
In early Oct., police collared a 27-year-old Connecticut man for sexually assaulting a 26-year-old demonstrator who was laying underneath a sleeping bag.
