Denver police arrested a man tonight who is accused of groping women on light rail trains.
The incidents started this afternoon when a man grabbed a woman around the waist at the RTD Auraria light rail station, touched her inappropriately and then kissed her, police said. The woman reported the attack about 2 p.m. to the campus police who, in turn, notified the Denver Police Department.
The man was described as a balding 5-foot-10-inch white male, in his 50s. A search of the area by both Denver and campus police failed to locate the man, said Sonny Jackson, police department spokesman.
But Jackson said this evening police received reports of a man doing similar things on a light rail train in southeast Denver. Jackson said the man exited at a light rail station in the Denver Tech Center at about 9 p.m., and a citizen followed the man to a nearby hotel. Police went to the hotel and arrested the man, Jackson said.
The suspect’s name was not released.
