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Police arrested a suspect after the video showed a man pushing a real estate agent to the ground and fumbling at an open house in Los Angeles.
The suspect was arrested Tuesday night, a Los Angeles police spokeswoman told NBC News. His identity and the potential charges against him are withheld until he is booked later on Wednesday, said the spokesperson.
The attack took place around 15 hours. On Sunday, a Keller-Williams Realty agent was introduced at an open house in the Encino district, in the San Fernando Valley. The surveillance video shows the agent and the man who walks outside and the woman who tells him to leave.
"You've seen the house, you're done, that's all," she said in the video obtained by NBC Los Angeles.
The man briefly removes his baseball cap, looks up at the camera and smiles. He then shakes the agent's hand and pushes it violently, causing the woman to fall back into a bush. As the woman screams for help, the man puts his hands on his chest and then runs away.
The agent, who has not been identified, told NBC Los Angeles that she had been shaken by the meeting. "I could not sleep, I keep watching the video and crying," she said.
Since the video was released, two other real estate agents have come forward and said they believe the same man had groped them at other open houses.
An agent, who asked to remain anonymous, told NBC Los Angeles that she had recognized the man after viewing the video and seeing him take off his hat. She stated that at an open house last June, he had claimed to be a cabinetmaker but had begun to ask the agent personal questions.
The woman said that she became anxious and when she asked him to leave, he tried to take her in his arms. The officer said that she had pushed back the man and that he had grabbed her chest before escaping. The woman said that one week after the incident, she had seen the man riding a bike several times in front of a house that she was showing.
The woman stated that she recorded a video in front of the house, but did not think that the investigators could identify her with sufficient clarity and she did not file a police report.
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