Manhattan
A thug robbed a pregnant woman at a Greenwich Village ATM on Monday morning, cops said. The heavy-set goon threatened the woman with a sharp object at around 10:30 a.m. and forced her to withdraw $500 from an ATM on Sixth Avenue near West Eighth Street, cops said. The robber, who was wearing a brown jacket, then fled with the cash, cops said. The woman was not believed to be injured. No arrests have been made, according to police.
Queens
A duffel bag with a dead body in it washed ashore in Far Rockaway on Monday morning, authorities said. Authorities did not release any information on the age or gender of the corpse, nor how long the body may have been in the water. The discovery was made shortly before noon.
Police are looking for a serial groper who has been targeting teens, trying to fondle them through their clothes. In one incident, the perv, described as between 30 and 40 years old, approached a 13-year-old girl at 136th Street and 59th Avenue on March 11 and groped her, cops said. He also grabbed a 19-year-old on March 23, and a 15-year-old last Nov. 6, also on street corners. All incidents occurred within blocks of each other in Flushing and occurred between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., cops said. The groper is believed to be 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds. In one attack, he was wearing a dark green jacket, a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
Brooklyn
The luck of the Irish wasn’t on this cabby’s side. Two toughs robbed an Uber driver on St. Patrick’s Day in Coney Island, officials said. The hoods climbed into the 21-year-old hack’s cab near West 33rd Street and Neptune Avenue at around 8:55 p.m. and threatened him with a metal object, cops said. The muggers demanded cash, but wound up fleeing with only a cellphone, according to police.
Two thieves barged into a Bedford-Stuyvesant cellphone store and stole electronic devices and $10,000 in cash, authorities said. The men entered the Metro PCS store at Bedford Avenue and Kosciuszko Street Sunday at 11 a.m., and one of them flashed a gun and forced a worker into a bathroom, cops said. They then took the cash, cellphones and accessories before fleeing, cops added. Surveillance video showed the men running down the street holding a black bag and wearing bandanas over their faces. The gunman is described as 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds. He was wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt and a black hat. His cohort is about 140 pounds and was wearing a black sweatshirt and beige cargo pants.
An gunman held up a Gravesend liquor store last Friday night, according to cops. Police said the bandit walked into the G&H Liquor Store on Kings Highway near East Second Street at around 8:05 p.m. and pulled a gun on the clerk. The worker forked over about $1,000, and the gunman dashed off.
Staten Island
A bandit robbed a livery driver at gunpoint in Clifton, authorities said. The thief hailed the hack in Brooklyn on March 19 at about 2:15 a.m. and asked to be taken to an apartment building on Osgood Avenue near Fairway Avenue, police said.When the car arrived at the building, the hood pulled a gun on the 37-year-old cabby and demanded his money, officials said. The thief dashed out of the car with an unspecified sum of cash, according to cops. The driver was unharmed. The robber is believed to be between 5-foot-8 and 6-1, and was wearing a gray baseball cap embossed with the letter “B.”
A thief stole a woman’s wallet at a Home Depot in Bloomfield, cops said. The 42-year-old victim was shopping at the Home Depot on Forest Avenue near Dwarf Street on March 21 when she left her pocketbook on a counter and walked away. The sticky-fingered shopper spied the unguarded bag and swiped the victim’s wallet, cops said. A store surveillance camera captured this shot of the grinning suspect.