Crime & Safety
L Train Thief Takes Shirtless Pic With Stolen Phone, Cops Say
His embarrassing photo automatically uploaded to the victim's iCloud account, according to the NYPD.

- Photo courtesy of the NYPD
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Police have released a shirtless pic of a young man in his 20s suspected of stealing a woman's iPhone on a late-night L Train from Williamsburg to Manhattan.
The 30-year-old woman sent the photo to police, the NYPD said, after it automatically uploaded to her iCloud account.
The airheaded thief snatched the phone around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, aboard a Manhattan-bound L Train stopped at the Morgan Avenue station between East Williamsburg and Bushwick, according to a police account of the incident.
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"Upon doing so, the male fled the open doors of the subway train and out of the station, to parts unknown," the NYPD said in a statement.
The woman was not injured in the robbery.
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Police believe the suspect to be around 5-feet-7-inches tall and 160 pounds.
Before he stripped down for a mirror selfie, he was seen wearing green camouflage plants and a gray hooded sweatshirt, police said.
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