Alleged Groper Surrenders to Police

A man who allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl on a Red Line train at the Kendall T station surrendered to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Friday morning.

Joseph Joyce, 27, turned himself in at Transit Police headquarters at 8 a.m. after the police obtained a warrant for his arrest. The Scituate, Mass. native was charged with indecent assault and battery, according to MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo.

Joyce was arraigned in Cambridge District Court earlier today and released on $1,000 cash bail, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said in a press release.

He is due in court on August 20 for a pre-trial conference.

The Boston Globe reported that Joyce was also wanted in connection to a similar incident on Monday in a Shaw’s supermarket in Cohasset, Mass., where he allegedly brushed up against a 40-year-old woman and lifted her skirt.

His arrest comes just two days after a girl informed Transit Police that a man reached for and pulled down her shirt. Security cameras captured the image of a suspect fleeing the station, and the photograph was then posted on news websites and “Wanted” posters.

The attack was the first of two assaults on Wednesday against teenage girls in Cambridge. The suspect in the second assault—a man who, according to Cambridge Police, tried to lure a 15-year-old girl with candy and then repeatedly grabbed her arm—is still at large.

Photo courtesy of the MBTA Transit Police.