By Linda Taaffe

The man who groped a Los Altos mother near Oak School March 24 has apparently been looking for more victims. Los Altos police said residents have since reported a man fitting the suspect’s description acting suspiciously in Los Altos, Cupertino and Sunnyvale.

A San Jose police artist released sketches of the man April 1 based on descriptions from the mother and another woman whom he apparently followed in Sunnyvale the same day. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department is investigating reports of a similar man seen loitering near a school in Cupertino’s Rancho Riconada neighborhood.

The Los Altos mother first reported the man to Los Altos police after he allegedly jumped out of the bushes in front of a home on Oak Avenue and grabbed her between the legs while she was walking to pick up her child from Oak School. She told police he nonchalantly walked to his blue Buick or Oldsmobile and sped away.

Police received their second report about the suspicious man the same day. A woman told police she believed a man had followed her onto a bus from Sunnyvale to Grant Road in Los Altos near the Oak School area. There was no physical contact, but the man behaved in a manner that prompted the woman to call police, said Los Altos police Sgt. John Hughmanick.

The women said the man was Caucasian, in his mid-30s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a medium build. He was wearing dark baggy pants and a dark baseball cap backward when he groped the Los Altos woman.

Anyone with information should call Los Altos police at 947-2770.