NYPD says two scooter-bound purse snatchers targeting elderly women in Manhattan

Adam Devine

NEW YORK, NY – The NYPD has identified the same scooter-bound suspects in at least two assault and robbery incidents targeting the elderly in Manhattan.

The first incident happened on January 2nd at around 10:30 pm. The suspects targeted an 85-year-old woman on West 34th Street heading toward 8th Avenue. They approached her from behind and snatched her purse while passing by on their scooters.

The woman was treated for minor injuries at Lenox Hill Healthplex.

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On January 14th, the suspects struck again; this time, the victim was a 76-year-old woman in the area of 6th Street and Avenue A. She was treated at NYC Health + Hospitals/ Bellevue for a facial injury and swelling on her wrist, injured when the same suspects forcibly removed her purse while riding scooters.



Anyone with information in regard to this pattern is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).


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