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Parking Lot Attendant Robbed
Police are looking for two suspects wanted for robbing a parking lot attendant at gunpoint in Fordham.

Police say the robbery happened on just after 4 a.m. Nov. 11 at BK Parking Group Inc. at 205 W. Fordham Rd., where the suspects flashed a gun and demanded cash from the 36-year-old employee. The thieves ran off with money and a cell phone.

Photos released describe the suspects as follow:

3229-16-52-sqd-robbery-photoIndividual 1: Male, Hispanic, mid-20’s, 5’8″, dark complexion, brown eyes, last seen wearing a black jacket, and black sneakers.

 

 

 

 

3229-16-52-sqd-robbery-photo-2Individual 2: Male, Black, mid 20’s, brown eyes, dark complexion, last seen wearing a gray jacket, dark blue jeans, and white sneakers.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Coat Store Thief Wanted
Police want to know the whereabouts of a man wanted for stealing a purse from a woman shopping at the Burlington Coat Factory in Fordham.

The thief was captured on video rifling through the woman’s shopping cart, taking the purse, and calmly walking out the store in a matter of seconds. The robbery took place at clothing store at 2543 Webster Ave. on Nov. 11 just before 5 p.m. The purse contained a debit card and $52 in cash.

The suspect is described as a male Hispanic, last seen wearing a blue hooded sweater with yellow lettering on its chest, blue jeans and blue sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers.

3035-16-gla-50-pct-10-23-16-photo-of-perpPolice Car Thief Charged
Police have arrested a suspected police car thief who took a marked police car on a joy ride before sideswiping four parked cars. Police say the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Rubin Fernandez was on the run since Sunday, Oct. 23, when he allegedly stole a police car from the precinct’s parking lot, driving it near the vicinity of Fordham Road and Sedgwick Avenue. It’s in front of 2300 Sedgwick Ave. where the thief slammed the police car into the vehicles before taking off in a Black Lincoln Town car. An investigation led police to his house in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was arrested and faces numerous charges including grand larceny, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

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