Panty raid
Like a ‘50s-era trope by a frat house, a male-female team stole 200 pairs of underwear worth $2,700 from a Victoria’s Secret at 591 Broadway in Soho last week.
Police say the woman stole the panties and shoved them into her bag while her partner played lookout. The whole thing was caught on tape from 6:20 to 6:30 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 4 and police are looking for the two suspects.
Soho partners in crime
Another female-male team hit a different Soho shop, this time stealing a $2,785 Louis Vuitton suitcase from Paris Stations at 347 W. Broadway between Broome and Spring Sts. last week.
Police say the pair worked together to steal the suitcase from the store, which buys, sells and trades high-end accessories such as purses and shoes. The suspects, a 54-year-old man and 45-year-old woman, entered around 2 p.m. on Thur., Oct. 2, but police arrested them the same day.
‘Lush worker’ strikes
While taking the N train from Astoria Blvd. stop in Queens last weekend, a 26-year-old man fell asleep and awoke at the Whitehall station in the Financial District — missing his $750 iPhone 6.
The Midtown West resident had entered the train at 2:30 in the morning on Sat., Oct. 4. It was the work of what the police term a “lush worker,” a thief who looks for drunk or sleeping people on the train to steal their stuff. Police arrested a 36-year-old man from the Bronx who was found with the iPhone 6 on him.
Daytime chain ripoff
A thief ripped a $200 yellow nameplate rope chain from a woman’s neck when the doors opened at the Financial District’s Wall St. stop on the 2 train at 2 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 4.
The 39-year-old Queens woman was not injured and the suspect fled by running up the stairs. Police conducted a canvass of the area and broadcast a description of the suspect over police and transit radio, but no arrest was made.
Prints & bag lifted
A tag team of two thieves walked into the Saint Laurent Paris store at 80 Greene St. in Soho last month. While one of the men distracted an employee, the other took a $1,190 handbag from the display case and hid it underneath his shirt, police said. He then wiped down the case with a cloth.
Police say the whole operation took two minutes, from 4:39 p.m. to 4:41 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 24. The two men left together. No fingerprints were found at the scene. The police say both men are in their 30s, are 5’10” and about 200 pounds.
Coat grab in Tribeca
A woman in her 20s went into a Steven Alan Annex store at 103 Franklin St. Tues. Sept. 23rd, grabbed a black leather jacket worth $2,900 from the rack and shoved it into her bag. She then fled north on W. Broadway around 2 p.m. A 31-year-old male employee reported the theft.
All work, no iPhones
A man entered The Dubliner, an Irish pub at 45 Stone St. in the Financial District on Tues., Sept. 23 at 12:23 p.m. and stole over $1,200 worth of the staff’s belongings, police said.
The thief made his way to the waitresses’ workstation and soon left with two iPhones, one iPad, bank cards, and an Arizona driver license. They belonged to two women, 22 and 31. Police say the devices were turned off so tracking couldn’t be used. The thief got away with $1,200 worth of electronics.
Thief steals safe
On 1:30 a.m. on Fri., Sept. 26, a man pried open the side door of Distilled restaurant and went to the manager’s basement office where he stole a metal digital combination safe.
He then exited from the same side door of the Tribeca restaurant at 211 W. Broadway between Franklin and White Sts. The thief got away with $4,775 in cash and $750 in gift certificates. The suspect was captured on video tape, but police have not made an arrest.
— Dusica Sue Malesevic
