The fish market worker who copped to groping a Brooklyn woman was arraigned Thursday - and ordered held without bail pending a psychiatric evaluation. Adolfo Martinez, 26, was charged with forcible touching and sexual abuse - both misdemeanors - after police say a surveillance camera filmed him close to the Sunset Park crime scene Monday night. Martinez followed his 18-year-old victim as she walked home near the subway station on 36th St. and Fourth Ave., then "grabbed her buttock" and mouthed a creepy parting message to her: "Adios, mami!" Assistant District Attorney Wilfredo Cotto told the court. Martinez stood before Judge John Hecht in Brooklyn Criminal Court clad in the same black shirt and jeans he wore when the NYPD picked him up on Tuesday night. He needed a Spanish interpreter to speak for him. "He doesn't understand the process," his attorney, Juan Fiol, said during the brief hearing. After police identified his image on the surveillance video, they tracked him to his home, and Martinez let them inside, where they found the jacket he is believed to have been wearing in the footage, Cotto added. Martinez confessed to the crime. As police were developing information on Martinez as the suspect in Monday's attack, they learned he was wanted for a 2007 sex crime in Chinatown. He works in a fish market in that Manhattan neighborhood. A judge had previously freed him on bail in connection with that incident, and Martinez simply ditched two subsequent court dates. Detectives do not believe Martinez is the culprit in a string of at least a dozen recent sex attacks in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope, Greenwood Heights, Windsor Terrace, Bay Ridge and the outskirts of Borough Park. Police officials have said they believe more than one person is responsible for that crime spree. Martinez is due in a Manhattan court Friday to answer to charges related to the 2007 sex crime in Chinatown.
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