Couple wanted in NYC pickpocketing spree at Bryant Park, cops say
A man and woman pickpocket team targeted at least 18 unsuspecting marks during a three-week crime spree at New York’s Bryant Park beginning late last month, police said this week.
The sticky-fingered pair’s MO is bumping into their victims as they lift items including cellphones, AirPods, credit cards, MetroCards — and in one case, a designer bag, according to cops.
All of the thefts — four of them on Thanksgiving Day alone — took place while the Midtown park’s Winter Village, a popular holiday market featuring multiple vendors selling their wares out of kiosks.
It’s unclear whether the victims were shopping there at the time.
They first pickpocketed a 29-year-old woman, around 7:15 p.m. on Nov. 20 — swiping her Gucci bag and credit card, police said.
The duo then targeted three 41-year-old women and an 18ඣ-year-old woman within about five hours on Thanksgiving, cops said.
The next day, the𒁃y robbed a 31-year-old man and 24-year-old woman at around 5 p.m., police said.
The fiends were at it again on Nov. 28, snatching a 24-𒁃year-old woman’s Samsung phone at around 5 p.m., according to cops.
On Dec. 1, a woman of the sa⭕me age was robbed of her iPhone at around 7 p.m., po✤lice said.
At around 6:30 the next morning, the crooks are believed to have swiped an iPhone from a 30-𒁃year-old woman.&nbs🐠p;
About 12 hours later, police said the pair ripped off an iPhone, cred💖it card and debit card from a 29-yea🐟r-old female parkgoer.
The bulk of the thefts happened on Saturday between 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. – with a 67-year-old man, and six women, including two 25-year-olds, and others ages 20𒅌, 23, 33 and 35, robbed of their belongings, cops said.
The N🌌YPD released surveillance photos of the pair la🐼te Monday and are asking for the public’s help in tracking them down.