Crime & Safety
Man Steals Nearly $3K Worth Of Pants From Brooklyn Mall: Cops
The man stuffed 82 pairs of pants and jeans from a baby store into a giant suitcase and then dragged it onto the subway, police said.
BROOKLYN, NY — Police are looking for a man who stole nearly $3,000-worth of pants from a Brooklyn shopping mall this week.
The man stuffed 82 pairs of pants and jeans from Buy Buy Baby, a baby store inside the Liberty View Industrial Plaza mall, into a large suitcase around 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday and left without paying for them, police said. The pants cost a combined $2,882.
He was caught on surveillance video after the incident dragging the suitcase through the turnstile at the 25th Street subway station.
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Police released a photo of him taken from that video:
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website atWWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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