Police say the man depicted above stole a $600 bicycle from a building at 75th and West End Avenue last month.
It was reported to police that on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at approximately 1430 hours, , an unidentified individual entered a basement door of a residential building located in the vicinity of 75th street and West End Avenue and removed a bicycle. The unidentified individual fled in an unknown direction. The bicycle had an estimated value of $600.
The individual is described as a male Hispanic, 30-40 years of age, last seen wearing all dark clothing.
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.
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Remember Vittorio De Sica?
30-40? He looks 50+. Catch him, lock his thieving behind up.
Let’s not skip the trial in your haste to punish.
I hope the bicycle gets returned to its rightful owner and
Happy St Patrick’s everyone!
It is so frustrating to read a description of a person as “Hispanic” — what is that supposed to mean?
good point.
And how would they know from the pic that he is “hispanic”?
These are stills from a security video. It’s probable that it was clear from the footage even though it is not obvious from the stills.
Really? I think it’s safe to say that it’s understood that “Hispanic” refers to someone who likely has a Puerto Rican, Dominican, maybe Central/South American ethnic background. What is the mystery?
For starters, include at least Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Loosely it means “Other”; usually written by someone who know a great deal about their own race, ethnicity but not-so-much about anybody else.
There’s a lot of that going around.
Some, if not most, so-called “Hispanics” are white; many people from Spanish-speaking countries or former Spanish colonies are also partly Asian, and if language is a criterion, many may not even speak Spanish or have Spanish-like accents — so how can one really tell who is Hispanic, particularly from a photo or video? Just saying …