Man Robs Woman, Goes On Shopping Spree In Target: NYPD

EAST VILLAGE, NY — A thief swiped a woman's credit card in the East Village and spent hundreds in a Target shopping spree, police said.

The sticky-fingered man stole the 31-year-old woman's card on Sept. 14 at 8 a.m. from the lobby of an E. 13th Street apartment building at First Avenue.

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He strolled over to the recently opened target on E. 14th Street and Avenue A and bought clothes and electronics worth $327, a police spokesman said.

Authorities describe the man as in his 20s, tall and last seen wearing a white baseball cap, a black T-shirt with, "Thumps up" scrawled across the front, gray jeans and white sneakers.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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