NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – One woman was punched and yanked by her hair on a Brooklyn subway train, and another woman was scratched on a Staten Island bus, in a pair of cellphone robberies this week, the NYPD said.
Both the victims and suspects are women in the two unrelated robberies, according to police.
In the subway attack, a 23-year-old woman was on a G train approaching the Bedford–Nostrand Avenues station in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 2 p.m.
last Thursday when a woman tried to snatch her phone away.
When she wasn’t able to get ahold of the phone, the suspect punched the victim in the head and dragged her by her hair, police said. She was last seen fleeing the Bedford-Nostrand stop emptyhanded.
Then on Staten Island on Tuesday, a 47-year-old woman was riding an S57 bus at 2:30 p.m. near Victory Boulevard and Bradley Avenue in Westerleigh when a woman grabbed her phone from her hands.
As the suspect struggled for the phone, she scratched her nails along the victim’s arm, police said. She then fled the bus with the phone.
Both victims suffered minor injuries in the attacks, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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