Crime & Safety

Unfairway! UWS Market Thief Steals 80-Year-Old Woman's Bag, Cops Say

Police are looking for the sneak thief who stole a shopping bag from a woman inside an Upper West Side Fairway Market earlier this month.

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Police are looking for the sneak thief who stole a shopping bag from a woman inside an Upper West Side Fairway Market earlier this month.
Police are looking for the sneak thief who stole a shopping bag from a woman inside an Upper West Side Fairway Market earlier this month. (NYPD)

UPPER WEST SIDE — New photos show a sneaky Fairway shopper who lifted an elderly lady's bag and ran, cops announced Saturday.

The crook nabbed the bag of an 80-year-old lady in the Fairway Market on Broadway and West 74th Street about 4:10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, cops said.

He dashed off with her credit card and cellphone, police said.

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Photos show the suspect was clad in bright yellow shorts.

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