FORGED DEVICE:
DECEIVING THE DELI
(19TH PRECINCT)
Police are looking for a group of four suspects believed to be connected to a skimming device placed on an ATM inside Blue Moon Deli at 1773 First Avenue near East 92nd Street on October 20 at around 3 p.m. According to police, the four split into pairs where a man and woman distracted the 30-year-old employee and the two other male suspects installed the device on the ATM.
Police released photos of the suspects, whom they describe as three white males and a white female, all between 25 and 35 years old.
FORCIBLE TOUCHING:
NO SHAME
(MIDTOWN SOUTH PRECINCT)
Police said a subway creep groped a woman twice on October 20 at around 1 p.m. in the subway. According to the police, the male suspect came up on a 24-year-old female victim from behind and grabbed her butt on the Grand Central/ 42nd Street Station 7 train platform. After that, police said, the victim confronted the suspect after noticing they boarded the same train, laughing and groping her again.
The victim snapped a cellphone shot of the suspect before he left the train at the 61st Street/ Woodside Station in Queens, according to police.
Police released a photo of the suspect, whom they describe as an Hispanic male in his 30s, 5’6”, 145 pounds, and last seen wearing a dark shirt and dark pants and with a birth mark on his left arm.
DOA:
PUT IN THE GRAVE
(19th Precinct)
A dead man was found outside the Russian Consulate at 9 East 91st Street on November 8 at around 7 a.m., police said. The 63-year-old man was found with unknown trauma to the head and was unconscious and unresponsive before being pronounced dead by the EMS at the scene. Police said the investigation into his cause of death is ongoing.
HOMICIDE:
NYERS’ WORST FEAR
(Midtown South Precinct)
On November 7 at around 1:20 p.m., 49-year-old Connie Watson was pushed onto the number 1 train subway tracks at Times Square by Queens resident Melanie Liverpool-Turner, 30, according to police. Watson, unconscious and unresponsive when police reached her on the tracks, was pronounced dead. Liverpool-Turner was charged with murder, police said.
FORCIBLE TOUCHING:
F TRAIN FREAK
(MIDTOWN SOUTH PRECINCT)
Police are looking for a subway groper after an incident on October 27 at around 7 a.m. when a male suspect groped a 15-year-old girl aboard a southbound F train, police said.
According to police, the suspect sat next to the victim before groping her chest and then fleeing the train at the 42nd Street/ Bryant Park station. Police said the victim was able to snap a picture of the suspect with her cell phone.
The NYPD released that photo of the suspect, whom they describe as an Hispanic male, 45 to 55 years old, with salt-and-pepper hair and last seen wearing a dark-colored coat and blue jeans.
ROBBERY:
PARK PERPS
(MIDTOWN SOUTH AND 23RD PRECINCTS)
A group of individuals are wanted by police for several robbery incidents in September and October, police said. According to police, the first incident occurred on September 16 at around 12:35 a.m. near East 76th Street and East Drive in Central Park, where a man approached an 86-year-old victim and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, threw him on the ground, and removed his wallet with around $20 and credit cards. The victim suffered a bruised right cheek but refused medical attention, police said.
On October 7 at around 3 p.m. at Transverse Road Number One and East Drive in Central Park, police said the suspects approached a 60-year-old pedicab driver and tried to jump into his pedicab to steal his iPhone 6S, but failed.
Later that day at around 11:20 p.m., the individuals approached a 21-year-old man who was walking toward Fifth Avenue at East 69th Street and East Drive. The victim was punched in the back of the head and kicked while on the ground by the suspects who then took his Samsung Galaxy cellphone and Google Nexus tablet before fleeing north, police said.
On October 10, police said, there were two more incidents. According to police, just after midnight, the suspects approached a 31-year-old man riding his bike south on Fifth Avenue at East 102nd Street. Police said the suspects tried to grab the cyclist’s backpack and hit the victim’s face before fleeing south on Fifth Avenue.
Just a few minutes later on October 10, the suspects approached a 47-year-old man riding a Citi Bike north on East Drive at East 95th Street and demanded he get off the bike, police said. The individuals punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall off his bicycle, and stole his iPhone 7 before fleeing south inside Central Park from East 95th Street and East Drive, police said.
Police released photos of the suspects (available at manhattanexpressnews.nyc), whom they describe as a group of black males, around 16 to 18 years old.
ASSAULT:
NOT LOVIN’ IT
(MIDTOWN SOUTH PRECINCT)
Two women jumped a McDonald’s employee who was cleaning the bathroom on October 29 at around 7 p.m., police said. According to police, the two women entered the McDonald’s at 220 West 42nd Street and went inside the bathroom to assault the employee. Police said the victim was not seriously injured and refused medical attention.
Police released photos of the suspects, whom they describe as black females with dark complexions.
