Police Blotter
Beaver groper
Police are searching for a man
accused of allegedly grabbing a
21-year-old woman’s buttocks
in front of 44 Beaver St.
around 8 a.m. on Tues.,
March 19.
The groper is described
as a slim,
dark-skinned male,
between 5-feet-9-
inches and 5-feet-11-
inches tall and 180 to
200 pounds, with a
mustache and partial
goatee. He was last
seen wearing a green,
black and white Nike
hoodie.
Anyone with information
is asked to call the
Police Department’s Crime
Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-
577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can
also be submitted on the CrimeStoppers
Web site at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.
COM, on Twitter
@NYPDTips or by texting to 274637
(CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
Fast Gap snatch
Police said that at 6:17 p.m. on
Sun., March 24, a man entered the
Gap store at 172 Broadway with
a trash bag and proceeded
to hurriedly stuff it with
$1,995 worth of clothes
before running away
about a minute later.
He then fl ed on a 4
train at the nearby
Fulton St. station.
Police say the
suspect stole 15
denim jackets
worth $70 each
and 27 woven
shorts worth $35
each.
The thief is described
as black
and roughly 5-feet-
8-inches tall. He
was last seen wearing
a baseball cap,
jeans, a jacket and
sneakers, all black.
Watch your coat!
Police say a man walked into the
kitchen at Tribeca’s Macao Trading Co.
and stole an employee’s coat.
The 23-year-old employee said his
coat, which also contained his wallet
and AirPods, was lying unattended on a
stool in the back when the thief entered
the restaurant.
The alleged thief is described
as black, 6-feet tall and 250
pounds, with close-cut hair.
He was reportedly wearing
black jeans, black sneakers
and a tan overcoat.
Senior
assault
Police are
searching
for a man
a c cus e d
of punching
a
72-year-old
on the Uptown
platform at
the Bowling Green
subway station after
the elderly man refused
to buy CDs from him on
Wed., March 20, around
11:30 p.m.
The victim said he was
riding on an Uptown 4 train
pulling into the station when
he was confronted by a
man trying to sell him
music. The victim
said he told him, “I don’t have money.
Get the f— out of my face.”
The 72-year-old does not remember
what happened immediately after, but
his next recollection is walking on the
platform with serious injuries to his
face. He was transported to Bellevue
Hospital shortly thereafter where he
was treated for a broken nose, a badly
injured right eye socket and substantial
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
This man ransacked the Gap in a
minute, according to cops.
injuries to the right side of his face.
The victim recalls his attacker as
black, roughly 6-feet tall and 180
pounds. The perp was last seen running
up to the street and was wearing a
red baseball cap. Anyone with information
should contact CrimeStoppers.
Punched for helping
A 72-year-old man was punched by
the turnstiles at the Chambers St.-World
Trade Center station around 5:30 p.m.
Thurs., March 28, police said.
Police said the victim was buying a
MetroCard when he heard a guy yell at
woman, “Hurry up!” The victim asked
her if she was O.K., and the perp reportedly
told the elderly man to mind
his own business before punching him.
The victim suffered a cut on top of
his head and was taken to the hospital.
The suspect is described as black with
close-cut black hair, around age 35 and
5-feet-9-inches tall and weighing 150
pounds. Police believe he was under the
infl uence of drugs or alcohol.
Rico Burney
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
Police say this guy grabbed a
woman’s buttocks on the street.
COURTESY
N.Y.P.D.
This man
is a suspect
in an illicit
“coat check”
— he allegedly took
a Tribeca restaurant employee’s
coat — police said.
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