Cops are looking for this suspect, who has allegedly targeted bus riders in four different Queens precincts in the past month.
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The NYPD is searching for a masked man who has been targeting MTA bus riders in a series of robberies in the last month, primarily in the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park.
The suspect began his robbery spree in the confines of the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 23, when he snatched a cellphone off a 15-year-old boy who was on board a Q52 bus as it approached the intersection on Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, before running off the bus in an unknown direction, according to authorities.
The unidentified man struck two days later in the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst, when he approached a 52-year-old woman as she was riding a Q53 bus on the evening of Friday, Aug. 25, in the vicinity of Hoffman Drive and Queens Boulevard. The crook took her wallet containing her credit cards and ID before running off the bus, police said.
On the evening of Friday, Sept. 1, the suspect struck for the first time in the confines of the 106th Precinct. This time, he worked with a partner in crime who blocked a 68-year-old woman as she was trying to get off a bus in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard and the man picked her pocket before running off with her wallet that contained credit cards, according to law enforcement sources.
The suspect struck two days later in the 104th Precinct on board a Q53 bus near the intersection of Cooper Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, when he took around $300 in cash and insurance cards from the unwatched bag belonging to a 35-year-old woman before running off the bus, police said.
The suspect returned to the 106th Precinct during the morning of Friday, Sept. 8. He was riding on a Q53 bus on Cross Bay Boulevard near the intersection of Liberty Avenue when he approached a woman and cut her bag before removing…
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