Police are asking for the public’s help in finding three men wanted for a series of early-morning robberies in and around the Upper West Side. The details, and a video, are below.
The New York City Police Department is asking the public for assistance with locating and identifying the individuals in the attached video and photographs, who are wanted in connection to several robberies that occurred within the confines of the 20, 24, 26 precincts. Details are as follows:
Incident #1, 26 Pct: It was reported to police that on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at approximately 0140 hours, inside of Morningside Park located at Morningside Drive and West 116 Street, the victim a 23-year-old male was approached from behind by three individuals who pushed him to the ground and demanded his property. Once on the ground one of the individuals did go into the victim’s pocket and removed his wallet, an undetermined amount of cash, and a cellphone. The individuals fled westbound towards Morningside Drive.
Incident #2, 24 Pct: It was reported to police that on Sunday March 6, 2016, at approximately 0221 hours, inside of Riverside Park located at Riverpark Drive and West 108 Street, the victims a 22-year-old and year-23-old males were sitting on the bench inside the park when they were approached by three individuals. One of the individuals punched one of the victims in the face while the other individual took property from the victim’s pocket. The individuals fled southbound from inside Riverside Park.
Incident #3, 20 Pct: It was reported to police that on Sunday March 6, 2016, at approximately 0240 hours, that the victim a 27-year-old male was traveling northbound on West End Avenue and West 73 Street when three individuals approached him from the rear. One of the individuals pulled the victim by jacket collar and tried to take his bag. An unknown male saw the incident and shouted at the individuals prompting the individuals to flee southbound on West End Avenue, no property was removed.
Individual 1: approximately a 20-year-old male, Black, 5’8″tall, 180 lbs, medium complexion, last seen wearing a red jacket, black jeans and a baseball cap.
Individual 2: approximately a 20-year-old male, Black, 5’9″,tall, 160 lbs, medium complexion, slender build, last seen wearing a black jacket, black jeans, black hoody, and black sneakers
Individual 3: approximately a 20-year-old male, Black, 6’0″tall,170 lbs, medium complexion, gray jeans, blue jacket, and a gray striped hoody.
Anyone with information in regards 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 at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
totally shocked!!
Gee! Who knew you could get robbed in a park at 2:00 in the morning? *sarcasm*
Just take a cab if you’re carrying anything of value, a lot of people are hungry out there and to them you’re just an item on the menu
@Edie G: I agree. But take a taxi even if you aren’t carrying anything of value. These were attacks first, then robberies.
Awww…come on people. These are just kids and they didn’t really hurt anybody. Probably just goofing off and horsing around the neighborhood. You know, it’s their neighborhood too.
As far as all the racists out there, if these kids were white you wouldn’t be saying that stuff.
And as we know, NYC under the brilliant Mayor Deblasio is safer than it has ever been. Stop and Frisk was a total violation of rights and a failure on top of that. Just an excuse for racist cops to harass poor minority kids. We all know that. Just ask Bruce, he will show you all the statistics and such as I don’t have it all handy.
So bottom line, if you are scared of crime and you worry about your family, etc. I hate to tell you that in 2016 you are a close minded, politically incorrect racist and just generally an awful person. And you want to blame the mayor, liberal policies, bad policing, etc.
And by the way, the same goes for you who want to profile muslims and arab-american regarding terrorism. Think about it. We need to allow all the refugees we can here and we need to embrace them.
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I know that all Blacks are not robbers; however, virtually all robbers are Black. Remember what Jesse Jackson said years ago-to paraphrase, when he sees young Black men walking toward him he prepares to be assaulted.
there seems to be a similarity to all these…can’t put my finger on it.
What kind of knucklehead wears a bright red puffy parka when he’s out robbing people?
I think we can expect lots of solid leads from the community in identifying these boys, said no one ever.
These reports are wrong. As we’ve seen regularly in these pages, crime in NYC is way, way down. These purported events simply did not happen; they would be contrary to those hallowed statistics.
I do, however, give credit to both the reports and the photos for not identifying in any way the demographic background of any of the innocent gentlemen who were not involved in the incidents which did not happen. That kind of superficial information is singularly unhelpful to any legitimate purpose and, in any event, does nothing but feed unfortunate and unfactual stereotypes.
Nothing happening here, folks, just move along, move along.
They were good boys. Just on their way to college. They wanted to talk to these people about Jesus but tripped and fell into their pockets.
I assume you’re being casually racist and think it’s clever? Or am I missing something? Also, pls be UWS-er2 or something.
Sigh. The 2:19 UWS-er comment was a reply to the 9:13 am faux-UWS-er comment. Wish the commenting worked again.
Cato remains blisteringly confusing. “Not identifying the demographic background”?? What do you call the three perp descriptions?
Sorry, BMAC #14, you’re absolutely right, and I apologize. I *was* “blisteringly confusing” in my blistering failure to add, in large blisteringly bold-face screaming capitals, “***SARCASM !!!***”.
I really do apologize for confusing you so.
Except in overwhelmingly white cities and states where white people rob/beat/rape/murder/etc… other white people. You just don’t hear about it. Expand your base of knowledge because criminals come in all colors.
Were the victims wise for being in parks at such an hour? No.
Does that, however, exonerate, in any way, the perpetrators of these crimes? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Is it really that difficult to see that both statements can be true?
Apparently, it is. At least if comments such as a number in this thread, ones that we inevitably see any tine such crimes are reported, are representative.
Your comment about welcoming refugees is as truly offensive as the rest of your screed. I say this as a former refugee from Nazi Austria whose family was as little welcome here as you imply we should be to Muslim refugees.
Well said Monk at comment #5. People are starting to realize that political correctness (i.e., not being able to talk about our problems) is destroying our ability to protect ourselves.
These thugs running around with knives and box cutters cutting people (they used to use bricks to the face 20 years ago) AND WE CAN’T EVEN PURCHASE PEPPER SPRAY IN NEW YORK CITY!!
Time to wake up. We need to be able to freely talk about what threatens us. This is actually the first time that I saw a description including the race of the person. Hope nobody was offended!!
Jesus H. Christ – do all you casual racists live up here? I’ve noticed some of this in the comments before but never to this degree. Is it the Trump Train leaving the station that has given you all some kind of Tourette’s? Crime happens, big cities and suburbs, this kind of public information service posts like this provide isn’t really aided by your know-nothing “commentary”.
In post #20, Galdebord began with the exclamation,
This cavalier profaning of a figure that is the sacred deity of millions of Americans and possibly as much as over two billion people worldwide is offensive and completely gratuitous. Would she have begun her post with, “Holy Prophet Mohammed!”, or some other profaning of a figure sacred to Islam? If anyone would do that, wouldn’t they be denounced as “Islamophobic” [sic]?
We have gotten several complaints about the tone of the comments on this post and will be closing comments.