An illegal migrant with nine prior busts snuck into a Brooklyn high school this week and randomly groped a 16-year-old girl before a teacher gave him the boot, cops and law enforcement sources said.
José Duran Enrique, 45, originally from Nicaragua, entered the High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology on 67th Street near Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge around 8 a.m. Tuesday and grabbed the buttocks of the teen student, a stranger to him, police said.
A teacher spotted the pervy intruder and told him to leave, according to the sources.
Duran Enrique took off, but was not on the lam for long before cops caught up to him nearby around 10:30 a.m., cops said.
He was arrested and charged with burglary, forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment, authorities said.
During his Wednesday arraignment, prosecutors requested that Duran Enrique be held on $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond, but a judge ultimately ordered him held on $1,000 bail or $5,000 bond, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Duran Enrique, of Queens, has nine prior arrests, the most recent on Jan. 20 of this year for trespassing in another person’s garage on 76th Street in his home borough, according to sources.
He was issued a desk appearance ticket and never appeared in court on Feb. 6, so a warrant was issued for him, sources said. He is scheduled to reappear in court on that matter on April 17.
Duran Enrique also failed to appear in Queens court when he was busted on Dec. 13 for criminal trespass in Queens, according to the sources.
In 2023, he was busted for petit larceny in Manhattan in October, burglary in Queens in September, grand larceny in Manhattan 10 days earlier, and forcible touching in Queens in May, sources said.
He was also issued desk appearance tickets for possession of a stolen credit card and grand larceny, both in February 2023, according to the sources.
Duran Enrique was originally apprehended by Customs and Border Protection back in 2022 in Eagle Pass, Texas, federal law enforcement sources said.
He was released on parole into the United States, according to the sources.
He was in Immigration and Customs Enforcement Custody for more than a year before bonding out in November 2024, the sources said.
