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Serial Subway Robber Strikes Again

2009_06_subma2p.jpg According to CityRoom, police believe the same man is behind seven subway robberies since the beginning of the year. After a woman boarded a southbound A train at 207th Street in Inwood on Sunday afternoon: "A man approached her and demanded her property, the authorities said. When she refused, the man struck her, before making off with her bank card at the Dyckman Street station. The woman was cut on the left cheek and had a black eye." The previous incidents, whose victims were four women and two men (the most recent victim was the first to be hurt), occurred on the 1, B and D lines. The suspect is described as "a black man in his early 20s, 6 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 2 inches tall, with medium build and black hair." Last week, it was reported that a woman was trapped in a high-entrance subway turnstile at a Brooklyn station by a man who threatened and robbed her.

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  • whitecastlerock

    In this city of millions they suspect the same person is responsible for all of these robberies?

  • Mr Mel

    "A man approached her and demanded her property, the authorities said. When she refused, the man struck her, before making off with her bank card".

    Did she open her bag, reach in and take the credit card out and hand it to the perp, or did she have her card out all the time and just hand it to him after he hit her?

  • jaycjay

    Sadly, we will never know.

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