BART driver accused of asking to fondle rider
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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(11-03) 18:34 PST ORINDA -- A BART train driver invited a female passenger into the cab at the front of his train, asked her if he could fondle her breasts and then, rebuffed, temporarily blocked her from leaving, authorities said Tuesday.
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Contra Costa County prosecutors charged 49-year-old Calvin Peter Tom of Brentwood last week with two misdemeanors stemming from the Aug. 4 incident: soliciting a lewd act in public and false imprisonment.
Efforts to reach Tom were unsuccessful. He has not been arrested but is the subject of a warrant, prosecutors said.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the 14-year employee had been placed on unpaid leave after the incident and later resigned.
BART police said the encounter happened about 12:30 p.m. on an eastbound train headed for Bay Point, after Tom invited the unidentified woman and a young boy into his cab. The boy's relationship to the woman was unclear.
Under BART safety rules, passengers aren't allowed in the cabs.
In the darkness of the tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, Tom allegedly whispered to the woman, asking if he could play with her breasts.
According to police, she said no, and Tom temporarily blocked her from leaving. She got off the train in Pleasant Hill and told a station agent what had happened.
Tom was taken off the train at the end of the line in Bay Point, where the woman identified him, police said.
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(11-03) 18:34 PST ORINDA -- A BART train driver invited a female passenger into the cab at the front of his train, asked her if he could fondle her breasts and then, rebuffed, temporarily blocked her from leaving, authorities said Tuesday.
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Contra Costa County prosecutors charged 49-year-old Calvin Peter Tom of Brentwood last week with two misdemeanors stemming from the Aug. 4 incident: soliciting a lewd act in public and false imprisonment.
Efforts to reach Tom were unsuccessful. He has not been arrested but is the subject of a warrant, prosecutors said.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the 14-year employee had been placed on unpaid leave after the incident and later resigned.
BART police said the encounter happened about 12:30 p.m. on an eastbound train headed for Bay Point, after Tom invited the unidentified woman and a young boy into his cab. The boy's relationship to the woman was unclear.
Under BART safety rules, passengers aren't allowed in the cabs.
In the darkness of the tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, Tom allegedly whispered to the woman, asking if he could play with her breasts.
According to police, she said no, and Tom temporarily blocked her from leaving. She got off the train in Pleasant Hill and told a station agent what had happened.
Tom was taken off the train at the end of the line in Bay Point, where the woman identified him, police said.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/04/BAKL1AEUM8.DTL#ixzz0VuIspQM3
