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Cops are looking for the suspects who allegedly robbed the driver of a for-hire vehicle in Springfield Gardens and drove off in a black SUV they had parked nearby. <\/p>\n
Courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n
The driver of a for-hire vehicle was robbed by two masked men in Springfield Gardens<\/a> on the night of Monday, Dec. 15, according to authorities.<\/p>\n Police say the 55-year-old victim was approaching the intersection of 144th Avenue and 167th Street a block south of the JFK Expressway at around 10:10 p.m. when his two passengers requested a change of destination and attempted to snatch his cell phone. After a brief struggle, the suspects forcibly removed his cell phone and exited the vehicle and ran off eastbound on 144th Avenue toward 168th Street where they got into a black SUV and sped off in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n Police from the 116th Precinct<\/a> responded to the location and found the driver uninjured. The value of the stolen cell phone is approximately $1,500 and the victim later discovered unauthorized charges totaling $7,473 were made through his Apple Wallet, police said.<\/p>\n The two suspects work light-colored hooded winter jackets and facemasks. One had a distinctive black tattoo on the back of his right hand and wore a light-colored ski cap while the other wore a Scally cap and had a black beard.<\/p>\n A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to their arrest and indictment.<\/p>\n Anyone with information regarding this robbery investigation is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.<\/p>\n Through Dec. 14, the 116th Precinct has reported 75 robberies so far this year, two fewer than the 77 reported at the same point in 2024, a decline of 2.6%, according to the most recent CompStat report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are looking for the suspects who allegedly robbed the driver of a for-hire vehicle in Springfield Gardens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[19642,303,9,24,63,103,104,122,124,123,1690],"class_list":["post-78149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-116th-precinct","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78149","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=78149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cops](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/driver-robbed-springfield-gardens02.jpg\")
Cops are looking for the suspects who allegedly robbed the driver of a for-hire vehicle in Springfield Gardens and drove off in a black SUV they had parked nearby.Courtesy of the NYPD
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Cops are looking for the suspects who allegedly robbed the driver of a for-hire vehicle in Springfield Gardens and drove off in a black SUV they had parked nearby.Courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n