Cell Phone Thieves Target Jackson Heights Stores, Police Say

JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS -- Police are searching for a group of teens who snatched three cell phones worth thousands of dollars from neighboring Queens stores.

The five teens hit the two Jackson Heights cell phone stores in a two-day shoplifting spree, police told Patch.

In the first incident on Dec. 21, the five boys entered a local cell phone store at 86-05 Roosevelt Ave. and swiped two phones worth an estimated $1,450 before bolting in an unknown direction, authorities said.

The teens returned to the same block a day later, this time targeting a T-Mobile store at 82-19 Roosevelt Ave., police said. Video surveillance shows the five hoodie-clad teens hovering around the store's display cell phones. The suspects made off with on cell phone worth $1,088 and fled, cops said.

Police described all five suspects as males in their late teens.

Anyone with information in regards to the above pattern is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.

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