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March 6, 2008 - 7:26PM
Updated: March 7, 2008 - 12:15AM
Police seek man in groping incidents at ASU
Nicole Beyer, Eddi Trevizo, Tribune
Police were actively searching for a suspect who groped and inappropriately touched several female students at Arizona State University earlier this week, authorities said late Thursday.
Watch Tribune reporter Nicole Beyer's report
Woman groped on ASU campus
Complaints from women who said they were inappropriately touched by a “creep” at the ASU bookstore and a similar report from a woman who was groped on campus at the Student Services Building led police to believe the attacks were committed by the same offender, police said.
ASU police Cmdr. Jim Hardina confirmed the cases were connected, adding that
the descriptions from victims are “very similar.”
Hardina said, “The description is almost exactly the same.”
Police described him as a white man in his early twenties, short cropped hair, about
6 feet tall, 250 pounds and a “stocky” build.
In the first incident on Tuesday, a woman told police that a man grabbed her breasts as she was leaving the bathroom in the Student Services Building, according to a police report.
The next day, a female employee at the bookstore said a man rubbed up against her and another female co-worker.
Employees at the bookstore said the same man also targeted female shoppers.
Police talked to the man at the bookstore but did not arrest him because they did not consider his actions intentionally criminal — and at the time they did not yet have information that could link him to Tuesday’s incident.
“If he grabbed the girls, that would be a crime,” Hardina said.
Hardina said police were actively searching for the suspect and that officers would release a warning to the public if the suspect was not captured by early
today.
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