Crime & Safety
Woman Shoved, Cell Phone Robbed In UES Q Station: NYPD
Police said they are looking for a robber who shoved a woman and snatched her phone back in June inside a Second Avenue subway station.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Police are still searching for a purported thief who they said shoved a woman and stole her cell phone inside a Second avenue subway station in June.
A 28-year-old woman was exiting an uptown Q train on June 16 at around 9 a.m. when a stranger shoved her and snatched her cell phone, police officials said Tuesday night.
The mystery crook then fled the station without a trace, officials said.
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No injuries were reported, according to the NYPD.
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). All calls are confidential.
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