SUBWAY KNOCKOUT
Two men knocked out a teenager on a northbound A train on Sunday night, after they stole his wallet and threatened him with a knife, police say.
The 19-year-old victim was on his way to his home in the Bronx just after midnight on Monday Feb. 1, when one of the perps took the teen’s wallet out of his pocket just before the train pulled into the Fulton St. station, according to police.
When he took a step towards the pickpocket and asked, “What are you doing?” the second mugger pulled out a gravity knife and held it to the victim’s neck, according to the report.
The teen told police that the knife-wielding criminal then grabbed his arm and punched him in the head, knocking him out cold.
According to the report, when the train reached 190 St. he woke up — without his wallet, which contained a green card, social security card and $160 in cash.
RANSOM CALL
An executive at the ratings agency Moody’s was conned out of $2,000 by a man in Mexico who threatened to kill his son, according to police.
On the afternoon of Wednesday Jan. 27, the 48-year-old man received an unsettling call at his office on the 28th floor of 7 World Trade Center from a man demanding the victim wire the funds to Mexico City, police said.
“Unless you follow my instructions, I will kill your son,” the caller told the father, according to a police report.
Police said the father withdrew the cash from a nearby cash machine and wired the money to Mexico City via Western Union.
No further information about the incident was available, but police are still investigating the call.
TASTEFUL THIEF
A well-dressed robber is on the loose in Lower Manhattan after he stole a custom-made suit from the backseat of a rental car, police say.
The car, rented by a man from the Lower East Side, was parked at the northwest corner of Greene and Broome Sts. on Saturday Jan. 30, according to police.
When the driver returned to the vehicle from a shopping trip that evening, he noticed the backseat window was smashed and the $2,400 suit, from bespoke tailor H. Freeman & Sons, was missing, according to a report.
SMARTPHONE SNATCH
A visitor from Jersey City left Lower Manhattan empty-handed after her phone was snatched last Wednesday Jan. 27, police say.
The woman got off the E train at Church and Dey Sts. and was walking towards the Path train, staring at her $300 Samsung Galaxy S4 as she went, according to a police report.
Police said the thief saw his chance at the northeast corner of Vesey and Church Sts., where he grabbed the phone and bolted, fleeing north on Church St. and disappearing into a nearby subway station.
GUILTY PLEASURE
A Long Island man cleared out a locker at a Downtown gym — and afterwards headed straight to the strip club across the street, according to police.
On the afternoon of Friday Jan. 29, the suspect broke into the locker of a Bronx man working out at the Equinox gym on Murray St., according to a police report.
The man scored a designer outfit worth more than $350, as well as a Metrocard and two credit cards — one of which he unsuccessfully tried to use at the New York Dolls club directly across from the gym, police said.
The creepy crook checked in at the gym’s front desk and was ID’ed from the information he provided, although there has been no arrest yet, police said.
