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Cops arrest second man in connection with B’klyn groping incidents

SMILE! Brooklyn women are, after alleged groper Joshua Flecha was arrested.

SMILE! Brooklyn women are, after alleged groper Joshua Flecha was arrested. (William Miller)

A second man has been arrested in connection with the rash of gropings near Brooklyn subway stations, authorities said.

Joshua Flecha, 32, of Queens, was busted Monday standing near several parked cars while he watched a porn clip on his cell phone.

Cops said his pants were also unzipped at the time.

Police first spotted Flecha at 2:30 a.m. on Greenwood Avenue near East 4th Street.

About 45 minutes later, at 3:15 a.m., the same anti-crime team observed Flecha on 17th Street, between 10th and 11th avenues, in Windsor Terrace walking along a line of parked cars, police said.

Suspecting that Flecha might be trying to break into one of the parked cars, the cops got out of their car, approached Fletcha and ordered him to put his hands on one of the parked cars.

He was found to be in possession of marijuana, cops said.

That’s when the cops also noticed that Fletcha bore a resemblance to the suspect sketch in a forcible touching incident in May. He also had a cell phone in his hand and his pants were unzipped.

Fletcha was arrested for criminal possession of marijuana and later picked out of a police lineup at Brooklyn Special Victims as the assailant in an incident at about 9 p.m. on May 7, when a male matching Fletcha’s description approached a 37-year-old woman as she swiped her MetroCard at the 8th Avenue entrance to the F train at the 7th Avenue subway station.

That’s when he grabbed the woman’s breasts, exposed himself and masturbated, police said.

The NYPD said the spate of sex crimes in the 72nd, 78th, 66th, and 68th precincts in Brooklyn South includes incidents beginning March 11 through Oct. 13 and may involve as many as four different men.

The bust comes after last Monday’s arrest of Adolfo Martinez, 26, for allegedly groping an 18-year-old woman in Sunset Park.

His confession to other incidents sent cops searching through old assault files.