Trio Of Thieves Target Delivery Workers On West Side: NYPD

MIDTOWN, NY — A trio of bandits spent much of May targeting delivery workers and robbing them of their hard-earned cash, police said.

Three individuals are believed to be connected to just as many early-morning muggings in Midtown, Chelsea and Greenwich Village, officials said early Thursday.

The first incident happened on May 12, near Sixth Avenue and 14th Street just before 5 a.m., when two men approached a 51-year-old making a delivery, police said, and pulled out a gun.

After striking the delivery worker several times, the two men made off with the 51-year-old's cell phone and over $1,100 in cash, according to officials, before fleeing east on 14th Street in a gray Honda CRV. The victim refused medical attention at the scene.

Just the next day at 5:15 a.m. near West 18th Street and 10th Avenue, three men pulled out a gun on a 73-year-old delivery worker who was in the back of his truck, police said.

The thieves again hit the man several times and made off with his wallet, and $70o, officials said. The man suffered minor injuries and was brought to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition while the thieves drove westbound in the same gray Honda CRV, police said.

After a brief respite, the trio was at it again on May 23, when they found a 69-year-old man making a delivery in Midtown on West 46 Street near Eighth Avenue at about 5:20 a.m., officials said.

Police couldn't say if a gun was displayed in this robbery, but said the crooks did hit the 69-year-old several times before taking the man's wallet and $90 before fleeing East on West 46th Street in a red Acura TLX sedan.

Officials released images of the red Acura as well as surveillance stills of three people believed to be connected to the robberies.

Anyone with information in regard 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).