He’s a brilliant creep.
Roman Gonzalez was busted on April 9 on the Union Sq. subway station for pleasuring himself in entrance of a lady on the prepare platform — the sixth time he’s been nabbed for public lewdness, and thirty second time he’s been arrested since 1983, The Publish has realized.
However Gonzalez, 67, was again out on the road days instantly after his arrest per week later as a result of the costs aren’t bail eligible.
Recidivist pervs resembling Gonzalez are the driving pressure behind intercourse crimes on the town’s subways and buses, police sources stated.
“How will you be doing this since 1983 and nonetheless be out on the road?” raged a disgusted NYPD detective.
There have been 213 individuals arrested up to now in 2025 for transit intercourse crimes within the metropolis and 52 of them have a number of arrests for intercourse offenses, NYPD information reviewed by The Publish present.
“It’s clear the NYPD continues to make security a precedence within the transit system, however we’d like prosecutors and the courts to play their half, guaranteeing that we cease the revolving door for recidivists,” a high-ranking police supply stated, declaring that main crime in transit is down 3% up to now this 12 months.
The Staten Island resident’s first arrest 42 years in the past got here on the age of 25, on a weapons possession cost after threatening one other man with brass knuckles, police sources stated.
His lengthy rap sheet consists of fees for petit larceny, possession of stolen bank cards, grand larceny and menacing, the sources stated. He by no means did jail time in New York.
By 2005 he was arrested for forcible touching; in 2016, for intercourse abuse, and later the identical 12 months, for public lewdness, when he masturbated on the G line at Broadway and Northern Boulevard in Astoria, sources stated.
In that case, the sufferer, a 26-year-old girl, managed to catch Gonzalez on video, which helped cops arrest him a month later, the sources stated. The case was later sealed and there was no info obtainable about it, officers stated.
By Feb. 23 he was allegedly at it once more, masturbating in entrance of a lady on the N prepare in Manhattan, authorities stated. He was arrested March 18, however regardless of his legal historical past — walked away with only a desk look ticket.
One other recidivist perv, Kenneth Tsui, has been arrested thrice for intercourse crimes, twice on the subway, and charged with persistent sexual abuse, forcible touching and sexual abuse, in keeping with cops.
Tsui, 27, was arrested on June 8 after he allegedly sexually abused a 17-year-old lady on the Puerto Rican Day Parade at Fifth Avenue and East forty eighth Road in Midtown, cops stated.
The teenager sufferer instructed cops “she felt one thing poke her buttocks” and noticed a person standing behind her with an uncovered erect penis, in keeping with a legal grievance.
The teenager snapped a photograph and gave it to police, and Tsui was arrested when a cop acknowledged him, the sources stated. He had a field cutter, police stated, and was additionally hit with a weapons cost.
Tsui was launched after a court docket look in August, when a choose set bail at $10,000 money or $30,000 bond. He pleaded responsible to persistent sexual abuse and is due in court docket for sentencing in September, court docket data present.
Tsui was additionally arrested for intercourse abuse on Sept. 13, 2023, for allegedly bumping into a lady along with his erect penis uncovered on a 6 prepare, cops stated. Tsui was convicted of forcible relating Dec. 13, 2023, however the case was dismissed when Tsui was discovered unfit to face trial, a spokeswoman for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg stated.
On July 26, 2024, he was deemed to be a Stage 1 Intercourse Offender, the bottom stage, court docket data present.
One other accused sicko perv, Dexter Betancourt, 37, allegedly tried to kiss a stranger’s toes after she rejected his advances on June 18 whereas she waited for a prepare on the 14th Road-Sixth Avenue station, cops stated.
Betancourt uncovered himself and fled on a northbound L prepare, police stated. He was charged with forcible touching and was reduce unfastened with out bail. His subsequent court docket date is in September, data present.
Betancourt has almost two dozen prior arrests, 11 of them sealed, a police supply stated.
In 2013, Betancourt allegedly threw a 27-year-old girl to the bottom earlier than choking and biting her face on the Higher East Facet, sources stated.
A 12 months earlier, the creep allegedly grabbed a 25-year-old girl, threw her to the bottom and groped her, sources instructed The Publish.
The courts must preserve repeat intercourse offenders behind bars, insisted one other police supply to The Publish.
“We’re doing all the pieces we are able to by placing extra cops on the trains,” the supply stated. “It goes again to the courts. They have a look at these public lewdness instances they usually don’t take them critically. The court docket has to punish these guys and preserve them in jail longer.”
