ROBBERY: HITTING HSBC, TOO
(6TH, 17TH, 20TH, 24TH PRECINCTS)
Police have connected previous bank robberies at Santander Bank to four new incidents throughout May and June and have incorporated them all into a citywide bank robbery pattern.
Adding to the two previous robberies, police said that on May 27 at around 4 p.m., the male suspect returned to the Santander Bank at 250 Lexington Avenue, between East 34th and 35th Streets, and attempted to pass the teller a note. According to police, the 57-year-old female instead went to the back of the bank to call 911. Police said the suspect fled with no property taken.
A few days later on May 31 at around 4:30 p.m., the suspect entered the HSBC Bank at 354 Avenue of the Americas, between West 4th Street and Washington Place, and passed a note to the male teller that demanded money and suggested he was armed, police said. The 46-year-old teller complied and the suspect fled with an undetermined amount of money, according to police.
Police said that on June 13 at around 3 p.m., the suspect struck again at an HSBC Bank at 2025 Broadway, between West 69th and 70th Streets, and passed a note requesting money and suggesting being armed. The 46-year-old female teller complied, and the suspect made off with an undetermined amount of money, police said.
According to police, the latest incident occurred on June 24 at around 11:45 a.m. with an HSBC Bank located at 721 Amsterdam Avenue, between West 95th and 96th Streets, with the same modus operandi, but with a 28-year-old female teller and the suspect fleeing northbound on Amsterdam Avenue, then westbound on West 96th Street, police said.
Police released photos of the suspect, whom they don’t otherwise describe.
COLLISION: PEDESTRIAN IMPATIENCE
(20TH PRECINCT)
An Upper West Sider, on June 28, passed away after being hit by a vehicle that had the green light, police said. According to police, a 2013 Infiniti SUV struck Stephanie Dains, 69, while she was walking along West 75th Street and began crossing Broadway without the right of way. The vehicle was travelling southbound on Broadway with the green light when it struck Dains, according to police. Police responded at around 8:30 p.m. and found Dains lying in the roadway with head trauma. EMS transported her to St. Luke’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police said the driver, who was not arrested, remained on the scene and the investigation is ongoing with the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad.
GRAND LARCENY: SUPERMARKET SKIMMERS
(VARIOUS PRECINCTS)
Police are looking for four male suspects related to a total of 50 incidents of unauthorized credit and debit card usage throughout Manhattan. Police said they received 23 reports from February 27 to March 29 of victims who said money was removed from their bank accounts without authorization. Police determined that devices, placed throughout supermarkets in Manhattan, stored the victims’ card information and PINs. According to police, the suspects then later withdrew money from the victims’ bank accounts at ATMs in Manhattan and Queens with forged cards made from the stolen information.
Police added that 26 incidents were added to the investigation since May 11 and one additional incident was added since June 15.
Police released photos of the suspects, whom they don’t otherwise describe.
SEXUAL ABUSE: UNWANTED GUEST
(19TH PRECINCT)
A 25-year-old male is wanted by police for an incident of sexual abuse where he is suspected of approaching a 26-year-old female victim on June 14 at around 2:45 p.m. As the victim entered her apartment building on East 85th Street, the suspect touched her chest over her clothes, according to police.
Police released video of the suspect, whom they describe as a 25-year-old male Hispanic, approximately 5’5″ and 160 pounds.
GRAND LARCENY: WANTED FOR WALLETS
(1ST, 17TH, MIDTOWN SOUTH, MIDTOWN NORTH PRECINCTS)
Police are looking for two females for a possible connection to a grand larceny pattern in Manhattan. The pattern, police said, includes 11 incidents where a male suspect, now apprehended, removed credit cards from victims or their unattended property and then used the stolen cards to make purchases. According to police, there are two females that have been seen using the stolen credit cards.
Police said the most recent incident occurred on May 11 at around 3:15 p.m. at Manhattan Hotel on 790 Seventh Avenue, between West 51st and 52nd Streets, where a female victim’s wallet was removed.
Before that, police said that on May 1 at around 4 p.m., a 14-year-old female victim’s wallet was removed from her bag when she was at the McDonald’s at 160 Broadway, between Liberty Street and Maiden Lane.
And dating back to April 21 at around 4:45 p.m., police said there was an incident where a 17-year-old female victim’s wallet was removed inside a Shake Shack at 691 Eighth Avenue, between West 43rd and 44th Streets.
The previous eight incidents followed the same pattern of the male suspect removing victims’ wallets in locations ranging from trains to business establishments.
Police released photos of the two wanted females, whom they don’t otherwise describe.
ASSAULT: MALLET MELEE
(19TH PRECINCT)
According to police, a 21-year-old female victim was assaulted by another woman with a black rubber mallet on June 14 at around 9:30 p.m. outside the subway station at East 96th Street and Lexington Avenue. The victim was brought to Metropolitan Hospital for treatment.
Police released photos of the suspect (available at manhattanexpressnews.nyc), whom they describe as a black female in her 20, 5’8″ and 135 pounds, with a slim build.
COLLISION: HIT AND RUN
(20TH PRECINCT)
On June 18 at around 3:15 a.m., police discovered a 21-year-old male in the crosswalk of West 61st Street and Broadway. Police said the man was unconscious and unresponsive and when EMS arrived, they declared the male deceased on the scene. The NYPD Highway Unit’s Collision Investigation Squad found that the man was trying to cross westbound on Broadway when he was struck by an unknown vehicle that then continued northbound on Broadway.
Police said there have been no arrests, but the investigation is ongoing.
LOCAL POLICE CONTACTS
Midtown North Precinct
306 West 54th Street
212-767-8400
Midtown South Precinct
357 West 35th Street
212-239-9811
17th Precinct
167 East 51st Street
212-826-3211
19th Precinct
153 East 67th Street
212-452-0600
20th Precinct
120 West 82nd Street
212-580-6411
23rd Precinct
162 East 102nd Street
212-860-6411
24th Precinct
151 West 100th Street
212-678-1811
26th Precinct
520 West 126th Street
212-678-1311
Central Park Precinct
86th Street and Transverse Road
212-570-4820
