Police are searching for the man they say is responsible for carrying out a string of thefts at six different mosques across New York City over the course of nearly two years.<\/p>\n
The NYPD identified the suspect as 48-year-old Nabil Kartah. Police say he racked up over $10,000 during the thefts. Kartah allegedly struck two mosques in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, Kartah followed a similar pattern in each theft – he entered a mosque and took wallets and cash. In many cases, police say victims later noticed unauthorized charges made to their bank accounts.<\/p>\n
The theft spree started on Oct. 18, 2024, at the Makki Masjid Muslim Community Center in Midwood. According to police, Kartah stole a wallet from an unattended jacket and fled with about $2,280 in property.<\/p>\n
Detectives say he struck in Brooklyn again nearly a year later.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 3, 2025, Kartah allegedly snatched a wallet from an unattended backpack inside Al-Aman Mosque in Cypress Hills. Police say he stole approximately $930 worth of property.<\/p>\n
The most recent mosque theft happened Feb. 20 of this year in the Bronx. According to detectives, Kartah took a wallet from an unattended jacket inside Omar Mosque on the Grand Concourse and got away with around $4,440 worth of property.<\/p>\n
Police say the three other mosque thefts happened in Queens.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Kartah is accused of a seventh theft that did not happen inside a mosque.<\/p>\n
They say he stole around $5,000 from inside a parked, unlocked car in Manhattan’s Lower East Side just last month.<\/p>\n
The NYPD says its Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the cross-borough spree.<\/p>\n
Police urge anyone with information to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for the man they say is responsible for carrying out a string of thefts at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-332956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332956","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=332956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}