Police released an image of the moped-riding man they say is responsible for stealing over $10,000 worth of gold chains during a snatching spree across the Bronx. Three of the seven robberies happened in Fordham Heights.<\/p>\n
The suspect is pictured carrying a food delivery backpack while riding a black moped. According to the NYPD, he mainly targeted women during the month-long heist, carried out from July 20 to Aug. 22.<\/p>\n
The man first zeroed in on a 22-year-old woman in front of 262 East 174th St. Police say he rode up on a moped, while honking his horn, and grabbed her gold chain off her neck. He followed a similar strategy in the following thefts.<\/p>\n
Just over two weeks later, two women were robbed just moments apart, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
On Aug. 5, the man rode up to a 36-year-old in West Farms and a 31-year-old in Belmont, snatching two chains from each woman\u2019s neck. Police say the 36-year-old victim was able to get her jewelry back.<\/p>\n
Two additional women were targeted just 10 minutes apart on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
According to police, the man was carrying a red DoorDash bag when he snatched a 20-year-old woman’s $2,300 chain from her neck in Fordham Heights.<\/p>\n
The NYPD says the alleged robber then traveled to Belmont, where he grabbed a saint pendant off a 47-year-old woman’s neck, valued at approximately $1,200.<\/p>\n
The final two incidents reported by the NYPD happened in Fordham Heights.<\/p>\n
According to police, a 46-year-old woman was robbed of her chain worth around $1,000 on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n
Six days later, the suspect allegedly snatched the most valuable chain – worth around $5,100 – off a 40-year-old man’s neck.<\/p>\n
None of the victims suffered serious injuries during the robberies, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police urge anyone with information to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released an image of the moped-riding man they say is responsible for stealing over $10,000 worth of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-336731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336731","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=336731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}