NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Police are searching for a group of suspects on Citi Bikes who were allegedly behind a headphone-snatching spree in Manhattan—just the latest headphone theft spree to be reported in recent months.
The NYPD released images of four suspects on Thursday, a day after police reported a separate headphone-snatching spree that included at least 17 incidents across the Bronx and Manhattan.
The Citi Bike group targeted six victims in three hours on St. Patrick’s Day, police said. The victims were hit between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at locations across the borough—from Greenwich Village to Central Park and the Upper East Side.
Four of the victims were women in their 20s or 30s. Two were men in their 30s and 40s.
The first reported theft was at 7:15 p.m., when a woman had her headphones ripped off her head at 1 Jane St. in Greenwich Village.
Fifteen minutes later, the thieves snatched headphones off a woman on West 14th Street in the Meatpacking District, police said.
About an hour later, they biked up to Harlem, where they allegedly stole headphones from a man on West 124th Street and from a woman on West 119th Street.
After that, they pedaled down to Central Park, where they targeted a woman on West Drive, near West 103rd Street, police said.
Two more headphone thefts were then reported on the Upper East Side. A woman had hers taken on East 73rd Street at 6:50 p.m., and a man had his snatched away on East 81st Street at 7 p.m.
No injuries were reported during the thefts, according to cops.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.