NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Brooklyn
A subway thief (inset) brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “MetroCard swipe” when he grabbed a straphanger’s card and some cash at a BedfordStuyvesant station, police said Sunday.
The 42yearold victim was standing in the mezzanine area of the Utica Avenue station on the A and C lines at around 12:50 p.m. Sept. 1, when the crook ran by and ripped the card from her hand, cops said.
He also snatched a wad of about $140, said police.
The thief wore glasses and a black baseball cap backwards.
Manhattan
A mugger forced a man at gunpoint into the back of a car in Chelsea where two accomplices then robbed him, cops said Sunday.
The crook confronted his 20yearold victim on West 27th Street near Sixth Avenue at around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, pulled a gun and ordered him into the back seat of a waiting black Jeep Cherokee, police said.
Two cohorts then stripped the victim of his Rolex, iPhone, debit cards and about $20 before shoving him out of the car, cops said.
Investigators tried to use the Find My iPhone app to track the device, but couldn’t get a hit because it had apparently been powered down.
A BonnieandClyde duo robbed a woman of her cellphone in Kips Bay, authorities said Sunday.
Paris McCoy, 16, jumped the 42yearold victim on Lexington Avenue near East 27th Street at around 12:45 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
The victim dropped her iPhone 5S as McCoy roughed her up, and a female accomplice swooped in to grab the device, police said.
McCoy was arrested shortly after the mugging and charged with robbery.
His cohort is still at large.
Queens
Investigators on Sunday released this surveillance image (inset) of a man wanted for robbing a cabby at gunpoint in Long Island City.
The thief flagged down the 33yearold yellowcab driver at 46th Street and Fifth Avenue at around noon Aug. 30 and asked to be taken to 45th Road and 23rd Street, cops said.
When the cab arrived at the intersection, the felonious fare pulled a gun on the hack and demanded money, police said.
The victim handed over some cash, and the stickup artist fled, cops said.
A freshfaced kid is wanted in the robbery of two 14yearold boys in separate incidents in Astoria, cops said Sunday.
At around 6 p.m. Aug. 25, the crook (above) cornered one of the teens at Eighth Street and Astoria Boulevard and threatened to harm him unless he turned over his iPod, police said. The victim complied, and the thief ran off, said authorities.
The young mugger held up the other teen two days later on Vernon Boulevard near 34th Avenue at around 4:40 p.m., police said.
That victim surrendered his iPhone when the robber claimed to be armed, cops said.
The crook, who is about 15 years old, never displayed a weapon, and neither victim was injured.
A thief pilfered a collection box containing hundreds of dollars from a Forest Hills synagogue, cops said Sunday.
The prowler let himself into the Beth Gavriel Bukharian Jewish Center on 108th Street near 66th Road at around 12:40 a.m. Sept. 21 through an unlocked back door, police said.
He made off with the shul’s collection box, which contained approximately $300, according to authorities.
The thief is a 46yearold partially bald man with a beard.
Staten Island
A bespectacled burglar swiped a cellphone from a home in Randall Manor in broad daylight, cops said Sunday.
The prowler (above) slipped into the house near Henderson and Pelton avenues through a rear door at around 10:10 a.m. Sept. 11, police said.
He pocketed the 50yearold homeowner’s Samsung Galaxy phone and fled, authorities said.
The thief is believed to be in his 30s, wore a camouflage baseball cap and carried a blue bag.