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NYPD officials have issued an alert about a grand larceny incident that took place on the Upper West Side earlier this month. (This robbery qualifies as grand larceny because the value of the stolen property exceeds $1,000.)
Police are hoping someone from the public will be able to assist them in identifying and locating the wanted individual.
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According to the police report, the incident occurred on Wednesday, February 12 at about 1 p.m., when “an unidentified male removed an envelope containing $10,000 dollars from a 52-year-old female victim inside of Citibank located at 2350 Broadway” at the southeast corner of West 86th Street.
Police say the suspect fled the location on foot in an unknown direction, but surveillance cameras were able to capture his image.
No injuries were reported as a result of this incident.
Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on Twitter.
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i’m trying to think of a legal reason for someone to need $10,000 in hard cash
Easy. I’ve paid in cash to the people who have done work on my apartment. Many places will give you a discount if you pay in cash. Nothing nefarious about it
Abetting tax evasion — and sharing in the benefit by accepting a discount — is not nefarious?
No. It’s the company not wanting to pay credit card fees.
Seriously?
So they can ask for payment by check. Or they can build the credit card fee into what they charge for the work, just as they do for every other expense.
feel free to go ahead and question the rights of the victim rather than the criminal.
Is this comment supposed to be funny?????
To “Good Humor”: Is your comment supposed to be humorous or do you lack sympathy for a potential victim?
Lacks a brain is more like it.
Couldn’t possibly agree more.
This is my branch and I’ve complained to the manager over lack of security. At one point a man walked in approached me as I was counting the bills and asked me for money. There’s a woman who sits outside on the window sill and accosts people for money. She is known to the manager. We have a right to our money regardless if it’s $1 or $10,000.
Ok … I moved away after 45 years on UWS (back to near Syracuse where I grew up), and nothing like this could ever happen here. But… other stuff does.
The photo is a man at the teller window transacting business.
Identification should not be hard.
And, was this a set up?