The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individual depicted in the attached photograph in connection to a robbery that occurred within the confines of the 40th Precinct in Bronx.
Details are as follows.
It was reported to police that on June 7, 2019 at approximately 0320 hours, in the vicinity of Brook Avenue and East 138th Street, 52-year-old male livery driver dropped off an unknown individual at the location. The individual had a verbal dispute with the victim, who asked the individual to leave his vehicle multiple times. The individual reached in the front seat, grabbed the victim’s arm when he was trying to call 911 and grabbed the $13 he gave the victim before taking off on foot in an unknown direction.
The victim was not injured.
Individual is described as a male, Hispanic, late 20’s; last seen wearing multi-colored tee-shirt and jeans.
Surveillance photographs of the suspect are attached and available at DCPI.
Anyone with information related to this incident 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 texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
All tips will be kept strictly confidential.
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