{"id":141630,"date":"2026-02-22T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141630\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:19:06","slug":"homeless-man-accused-of-stealing-womans-cane-outside-nyc-target-is-a-scofflaw-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141630\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man accused of stealing woman&#8217;s cane outside NYC Target is a scofflaw sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/20\/woman-88-attack-homeless-man-steals-cane-union-square-target\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homeless man charged with stealing an elderly woman\u2019s cane<\/a> outside a Manhattan Target was held on bail Saturday afternoon following his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtis Mcvae, 36, sprung up from sitting on the pavement in front of the store on Thursday around 3:15 p.m. at Union Square East at E. 14th St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/25\/cops-hunt-man-who-ordered-his-dog-to-attack-stranger-in-union-square-subway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Union Square<\/a> as an 88-year-old woman came walking by with her home health aide, prosecutors alleged. He grabbed the woman\u2019s arm, trying to yank away her purse and cane, they said.<\/p>\n<p>A good Samaritan approached and tried to get Mcvae to let go of his grasp, but he refused, resulting in the elderly woman falling to the sidewalk during the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Medics brought the victim to\u00a0Lenox Hill Hospital\u00a0in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Mcvae took off with the woman\u2019s cane, fleeing north through Union Square Park, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s home health aide took a photo of Mcvae that identified his clothes while the Samaritan provided a description of him to detectives. Detectives created a wanted flyer after they located video of Mcvae from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Mcvae was arrested Friday and charged with robbery. He has six prior arrests, with charges including petit larceny and possession of a controlled substance, police said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he was convicted as a sex offender in Oregon and previously failed to register as such in Wisconsin, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/racinecountyeye.com\/2017\/02\/25\/convicted-sex-offender-found\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raine County eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Felicia Mennin ordered Mcvae to be held on $7,500 cash bail, $25,000 insurance company bond and $30,000 partially secured surety bond after prosecutors noted that Mcvae had three failures to appear in court. He\u2019s due back in court on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless man charged with stealing an elderly woman\u2019s cane outside a Manhattan Target was held on bail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-141630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-crime","21":"tag-sub-county-region","22":"tag-the-bronx","23":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","24":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141630","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=141630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}