OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- When a deaf woman answered her door, she thought it was a Jehovah's Witness, but instead, it was a man selling magazines, and she said he groped her.

The woman lived near West 151st Street and Glenwood Avenue.

"He brushed her breasts, and she thought this was an accident, and then as they were exchanging the book back and forth, he touched her again several times, which could not have been an accident," said Officer Jim Weaver, of the Overland Park Police Department.

A neighbor also answered a knock on her door late Tuesday evening to a man selling magazines.

She was not touched inappropriately, she said, but she thought it was unusual that a solicitor was knocking on doors after dark.

"It's so dark and rainy, and it was very strange, and what happened to the neighbor, it's totally shocking," the neighbor said. "I am very shocked, because I know she's deaf, and when somebody just comes to somebody's door and tried to abuse somebody, it's horrible."

Police stopped a van in the area filled with people from South Carolina who were out soliciting that night, but the woman who reported being groped to police wasn't able to identify any of them as a suspect.

Overland Park residents can pick up free No Solicitors signs at the Overland Park Police Department, police said.