Crime & Safety
4-Year-Old Gets Chain Snatched By Man In Washington Heights: NYPD
Police are looking for a man who stole a chain off the neck of a four-year-old in Washington Heights.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A four-year-old had a chain necklace snatched from his neck in a Washington Heights building on Saturday, according to police.
The preschooler was inside the lobby of a residential building near West 183rd Street and Audubon Avenue, when a man stole the four-year-old's chain off his neck and fled the building, according to police.
The child suffered a small cut to his neck, police added.
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Police released pictures Tuesday afternoon of a man wanted in connection to the robbery.
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).
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