Crime & Safety
$5K Wedding Dress Stolen From Greenwich Village Lobby: Report
The NYPD is trying to track down a wedding dress that was stolen from a Greenwich Village building lobby.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — There's a wedding dress thief on the loose. Police are searching for a man who stole a box from the lobby of a residential building in Greenwich Village.
Within that box was a $5,000 wedding dress, according to ABC 7.
The crime happened on Feb. 3 at 4:45 p.m. within a building near Washington Square West and 6th Avenue, according to police.
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The thief entered the building through an unlocked front door and proceeded to take a box containing the dress, police said.
The owner of the dress told ABC 7 that she's already married and was getting the dress shipped to a different location when it was stolen.
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Police released a photo Monday of a man wanted in connection to the incident.
Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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