Woman Turns Tables on Alleged Subway Pervert

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- Police arrested a man accused of taking a cell phone picture under a subway rider's skirt after the victim said she used her own phone to snap back.


Alice Stockton-Rossini reports

A 28-year-old woman, who was struggling up the stairs at the Dyckman Street Station on her way to work one August morning, said she felt a man standing too closely behind her.

When she turned around, she noticed the man fixated on an image on his cell phone. Another passerby told her the man was looking at a picture he had allegedly taken from under the woman's skirt.

She followed the man onto a train, took his picture, then e-mailed it to police and filed a report. "I told him `smile' because I am going to the police,''  the woman told The New York Times.

On Tuesday, an officer at the 110th Street Subway Station approached a man matching the photograph, police said. The man, identified as Aaron Olivieri, 36, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday on misdemeanor charges of unlawful surveillance and attempted sexual abuse and harassment, authorities said.