A gun-toting trio robbed a person of his $30,000 Cartier Santos watch in Manhattan over the weekend — after foiling the sufferer’s try to avoid wasting his dear timepiece and flee in a taxi, cops stated.
The 46-year-old sufferer was strolling on West thirty seventh Road close to Dyer Avenue in Hudson Yards round 5:15 p.m. Saturday when three suspects stormed as much as him and demanded the dear watch, authorities stated.
The short-thinking watch-wearer tried to get away by hopping right into a taxi – however his undeterred pursuers chased after the cab, police stated.
As soon as they caught up, they flashed a gun and snatched the watch from the sufferer, cops stated.
The high-end thieves had not been caught by Tuesday, police stated.
Two of them have been carrying face masks, one pulled down, in line with surveillance footage. One is proven carrying a particular outsized black hoodie emblazoned with “SAINT” in all caps on it and one other donning a grey cranium cap with the phrases, “PLEASURES SERVICE.”
Anybody with data on their whereabouts is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public may also submit their suggestions by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ on X @NYPDTips.
