{"id":101824,"date":"2026-01-16T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:02:24","slug":"mt-hope-person-sought-for-snatching-cellphones-inside-subway-stations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101824\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Hope: Person Sought for Snatching Cellphones inside Subway Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Incident 1 took place on Sunday, Jan. 11, at around 4.55 p.m. inside the Burnside Avenue subway station. They said a 41-year-old female victim was standing on the southbound \u20184\u2019 train platform when an unidentified person snatched the victim\u2019s cell phone from her hand, and then fled the location on foot to parts unknown. They said there were no injuries reported as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/46-Pct-TD11-Grand-Larceny-Pattern-RMA-106-26-Photo-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-126880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/46-Pct-TD11-Grand-Larceny-Pattern-RMA-106-26-Photo-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"893\"  \/><\/a>The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying the person seen in this photo who they say is wanted in connection with snatching cellphones (grand larceny pattern) identified in the Mt. Hope section of The Bronx.\u00a0<br \/>Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Police said the second incident took place on Monday, Jan. 12, at around 6.55 p.m. inside Tremont Avenue subway station. They said a 41-year-old female victim was standing at the bottom of the staircase of the \u2018B\/D\u2019 line when an unidentified person snatched the victim\u2019s cell phone from her hand. They said the suspect then fled the location on foot to parts unknown, and there were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the attached images showing the suspect were obtained from the vicinity of the Burnside Avenue subway station incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, in Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1768605603944000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xWkOmjjBvt4gbYvloratC\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Police said Incident 1 took place on Sunday, Jan. 11, at around 4.55 p.m. inside the Burnside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-101824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}