“We’ve seen some guys no prop on them at all just go into someone’s pocket. The throngs of tourists and others in Times Square often don’t realize they’ve been ripped off. Often the pickpockets use static props like bags and other items to hide their sleight of hand. I apprehended him and the kid took off,” he said.
“I grabbed him with the wallet in his hand. In one recent case, Soldano collared a father who boosted a tourist’s wallet. “And the father goes into the pocket.” Pickpocket Squad Police Officer Joe Solano said he was shocked by cases of parents using children to help them lift wallets. Often a pickpocketing parent steers a child to a tourist and has the child “go in front of them, stop short or go to the side of them, bump them by accident,” he said. “We had the baby back at the precinct and had to go the whole route,” Soldano said. The squad recently collared a mother who was pickpocketing while pushing her baby in a stroller, he said. Jacob Lund – NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said the rise in pickpocket cases was “earth-shattering.” Helayne Seidman Pickpocketing has been on the rise, according to reports. Police Officer Joe Soldano, a Pickpocket Squad leader, said some of the thieves use children, even infants, to distract the tourists while they ply their trade. It’s not clear if they are among 110,000 or so asylum seekers who have arrived in the city over the past year because cops are barred from seeking immigration status. When they are arrested, the pickpockets tell cops they are from Central and South America, police said. “People are going to go back to wherever they came from and say, ‘I spent half my trip canceling my credit cards.’” “You can’t have this,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said. The area - from Sixth to Eighth Avenues between West 42nd and West 49th Streets - has seen the number of pickpocket complaints skyrocket 222% - to 187 so far this year from 58 in the same span in 2022, NYPD data show. Times Square overrun with hordes of drugs, homeless people in troubling throwback to crime-ridden 1990s: ‘It’s a sh-thole’Ĭrews of migrants have been using children as decoys to pickpocket unsuspecting tourists in Times Square, The Post has learned. Parrotheads toast to Jimmy Buffett in Manhattan’s Margaritaville: ‘It’s what he would have wanted’ Raunchy sex-in-NYC stories the focus of new exhibit that says ‘f-k you’ to art world 63-year-old man struck by 7 train in Times Square
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