Suspect charged with swiping bag full of cash and jewelry from Flatiron club
Bag theft suspect one By Sabina Mollot Police have arrested one of the women who allegedly worked together to steal a bag full of cash and jewelry from a boxer who was partying at Jay-Z’s 40/40...
View ArticlePolice Watch: Man accused of threats, Pregnant woman assaulted
MAN ACCUSED OF MAKING THREATS AT CLUB Police arrested 35-year-old Adam Torres for alleged weapons possession, menacing and harassment in front of 39 West 21st Street last Sunday at 4:05 a.m. Police...
View ArticleKips Bay Ricky’s shop robbed at gunpoint
Robbery suspect By Sabina Mollot Cops are looking for a man who robbed a Ricky’s beauty supply store in Kips Bay at gunpoint. Police said that on Wednesday night, the man walked into the business at...
View ArticleOffice cleaner charged with burglarizing client’s office
By Maria Rocha-Buschel A cleaning company employee has been arrested for allegedly burglarizing an office he had access to through his job, police said. Christian Holmes, 25, was arrested on Tuesday,...
View ArticleMan charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of bags from Flatiron...
By Maria Rocha-Buschel Police arrested a man believed to be responsible for a number of thefts from high-end designer stores in the Flatiron area since January. Kevin Gonzalez, 36, has been charged...
View ArticleTwo women violently mugged on Avenue B
Robbery suspect, pictured at a building on Avenue B near 13th Street By Sabina Mollot Cops are looking for a man who violently robbed two women in their East Village apartment buildings on St....
View ArticlePolice on lookout for phony basketball team now on robbery spree
The five robbery suspects seen at Blue Smoke restaurant in Flatiron By Maria Rocha-Buschel Police are looking for five young black men in connection with a number of robberies committed under the guise...
View ArticlePolice Watch: Man charged in hit-and-run, ‘Bag snatcher’ arrested at Gramercy...
MAN CHARGED WITH HIT-AND-RUN Police arrested 40-year-old Robert Maltese for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury in front of 132 West 31st Street on a previous date....
View ArticleRobber pulls away cane from man, helps him back up, then steals his cash
Robbery suspect By Sabina Mollot Police are hunting a man who violently robbed a 70-year-old man on Park Avenue South on Tuesday by pulling his cane away from him as he walked along the sidewalk. After...
View ArticleThieves preying on victims at coffee bars around Union Square
By Maria Rocha-Buschel Police arrested a man this past Monday who is suspected of snatching unattended bags from the Starbucks at 10 Union Square East, which police say has been a hotbed of thefts for...
View ArticleCops looking for man who snatched bag from woman in Stuy Town
Bag-snatching suspect By Sabina Mollot Police are on the lookout for a man who grabbed a bag from a woman in Stuyvesant Town last Thursday evening. The 21-year-old victim was walking along the Avenue C...
View ArticleTwo teens arrested for Blue Smoke robbery
The five robbery suspects seen at Blue Smoke restaurant in Flatiron By Maria Rocha-Buschel Police arrested two 15-year-old boys in the last week in connection with a robbery at Blue Smoke that took...
View ArticleThieves taking entire carts from mail carriers
By Sabina Mollot No longer content with swiping mail and packages from building lobbies, some thieves are brazenly stealing entire carts full of mail as postal carriers make their rounds in Manhattan....
View ArticleShoplifters push down employee at Modell’s
Police are the on the lookout for three suspects. By Sabina Mollot Police are looking for three young men with expensive taste who stole a bag and clothing from two stores on the same day. In one...
View ArticleMan wanted for package thefts, vandalism in Stuy Town
Package theft suspect (Photo courtesy of StuyTown Property Services) By Maria Rocha-Buschel In what seems to be an ongoing battle to stay a step ahead of local package thieves, a couple of buildings in...
View ArticlePolice Watch: Teen arrested for Blue Smoke robbery, Man charged in 7-Eleven...
FOURTH TEEN ARRESTED FOR BLUE SMOKE ROBBERY Police arrested a 16-year-old in connection with a robbery inside Blue Smoke at 116 East 27th Street on March 18. Police said that a host at the restaurant...
View ArticleWoman robbed at gunpoint on East 20th Street
Robbery suspect By Sabina Mollot Cops are looking for a man who robbed a woman at gunpoint in Gramercy shortly after midnight on Sunday. Police said the woman was walking past 201 East 20th Street at...
View ArticlePolice Watch: Man charged with robbery in Stuy Town, Arrest for trespassing...
Robbery suspect MAN CHARGED WITH ROBBERY IN STUY TOWN Police arrested 18-year-old Davin Quirindongo for allegedly stealing from a woman on Avenue C in March. According to the district attorney’s...
View ArticleDon’t fall for this rotten apple phone scam
By Sabina Mollot The latest phone scam to irritate New Yorkers struck this past week, with numerous residents of Stuyvesant Town reporting they were called by someone claiming to be from Apple. Susan...
View ArticleRobbers steal victim’s hat, threaten him with knife at Union Square Park
Sketch of the second suspect Police are looking for a pair of muggers who pulled a knife on a teenager at Union Square Park. On Thursday, April 12 at 5:40 p.m., the 18-year-old victim was about to go...
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