DISTRESS SIGNAL:
FLORIDA FLYER
(20TH PRECINCT)
Police responded to a plane in distress in the Hudson River on May 27 around 7:30 p.m. near the West 79th Street Boat Basin. According to police, responding emergency workers found a single-seat plane submerged before securing it to a harbor launch. Police said rescue divers recovered William Gordon, a 56-year-old Florida resident, who was later declared deceased by EMS. Police said the investigation is ongoing.
FORCIBLE TOUCHING:
PREDATOR HUNT
(23RD PRECINCT)
Police are on the lookout for a male suspect connected to three incidents of forcible touching involving two 14-year-old female victims throughout May. According to police, Brett A. Bernstein, a 32-year-old male, kissed the two 14-year-olds and grabbed their hands to place them on his midsection on three different dates in May. On a separate occasion, Bernstein sent images of his midsection and upper body to each of the victims via text messaging, police said.
Police released a photo of the suspect, whom they describe as a 32-year-old white male, 5’11”, 220 pounds, with brown eyes, and brown hair.
PUBLIC LEWDNESS:
SERIAL SUBWAY PERV
(MIDTOWN NORTH AND 1ST PRECINCTS)
Police on May 20 arrested Kenneth Wiley, a Brooklyn resident wanted for several incidents of public lewdness in the Midtown North and 1st Precincts areas.
The first incident, according to police, occurred on March 28 around 1 a.m. on the F train. Police said Wiley sat in front of a 27-year-old female and asked her if it was an express train before beginning to masturbate under his hoodie. Wiley later got off the train and left through the exit on the corner of West 47th and Avenue of the Americas.
On April 1, police said that a 23-year-old female victim spotted Wiley again masturbating on the northbound 1 train at around 8:30 a.m. He left the subway through the exit at Greenwich and Rector Streets, according to police.
Weeks later on April 29 at around 5:35 p.m., Wiley was aboard a southbound train before sitting in front of a 40-year-old victim and beginning to masturbate, according to police. Both the victim and suspect left the subway at the Chambers Street station, police said. Just five minutes later on the same day, Wiley approached a 23-year-old female at around 5:40 p.m. while riding the southbound E train, police said. The suspect asked the victim a question before exposing himself to her as he stepped off the train at the Canal Street stop.
In the latest incident, police said that Wiley was aboard a southbound N train on April 30 at around 1 a.m. when he asked a 30-year-old female a question. The victim responded and noticed Wiley was masturbating inside his hoodie. The suspect then left the train at the Cortlandt Street stop.
Wiley, whom police describe as a 33-year-old, 6-foot tall, 195-pound black male with short black hair, brown eyes, and tattoos of the words “Browns” on his hand and “Brooklyn” on his arm, was charged with five counts of public lewdness and bail jumping. The suspect was previously charged with 16 counts of burglary throughout Manhattan between 2013 and 2016.
MISSING PERSON:
CLARENCE WILSON
(24TH PRECINCT)
Police are looking for Clarence Wilson, an 83-year-old Upper West Side resident, who was last seen leaving his home at 826 Columbus, between West 100th and 101st Streets, at 3 p.m. on May 31.
Police released photos of the missing person (available at manhattanexpressnews.nyc), whom they describe as 5’11”, 140 pounds, with a thin build, brown eyes, black hair, and last seen wearing a greet hat, blue jeans, and a red shirt.
DOA: MIDTOWN MYSTERY
(MIDTOWN NORTH PRECINCT)
On May 26 at around 2:30 p.m., police responded to the residence of Damien Peters, a 35-year-old Midtown resident, at 346 West 52nd Street, where they found an unconscious and unresponsive Peters, who was later pronounced deceased at Roosevelt Hospital. According to police, the medical examiner is still determining the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing.
MISSING PERSON:
MICHAEL LOPEZ
(23RD PRECINCT)
Police are searching for Michael Lopez, a 44-year-old Midtown resident, who was reported missing on May 26 around 3 p.m. According to police, Lopez was last seen leaving his apartment at 1246 Fifth Avenue near 106th Street, wearing a gray shirt, gray pants, and black shoes. Police released photos of the missing person (available at manhattanexpressnews.nyc), whom they describe as a black male.
LOCAL POLICE CONTACTS:
Midtown North Precinct
306 West 54th Street
212-767-8400
Midtown South Precinct
357 West 35th Street
212-239-9811
17th Precinct
167 East 51st Street
212-826-3211
19th Precinct
153 East 67th Street
212-452-0600
20th Precinct
120 West 82nd Street
212-580-6411
23rd Precinct
162 East 102nd Street
212-860-6411
24th Precinct
151 West 100th Street
212-678-1811
26th Precinct
520 West 126th Street
212-678-1311
Central Park Precinct
86th Street and Transverse Road
212-570-4820
