Results tagged “robber”

Police are asking Upper East Siders to be on the lookout for a knife-wielding mugger suspected in a string of robberies in the neighborhood over the past week. The first is believed to have occurred at 12:45 a.m. on September 4th, when the perp—described as a mustachioed black male, between the ages of 35 and 40, about 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds—relieved a 32-year-old man of his wallet and cellphone.

A little tidbit about our favorite teacher ass-tapping, teen model turned bodega robber, Joshua Walter. Now even though the 20-year-old runway model has confessed to holding up a number stores since June, the Post says he "was soon blubbering like a baby that he was afraid of what might happen to him behind bars," according to police sources. Well, if inmates at Rikers knew enough about alleged Starbucks bomber and Fight Club fan Kyle Shaw to punch Shaw in the face, we can—thanks to Oz—imagine what will happen to Walter. The Post adds that Walter's romance with his 17-years-his-senior girlfriend, Gina Salamino, "fizzled" but the Daily News suggested they were still living together. The News also reports today that he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for beating her up in May! Anyway, Walter and his accomplices are awaiting arraignment.

According to her driver's license, the 76-year-old woman who was recently busted for stealing a wallet from a Fairway shopping cart is named Charlotte Petrovas. She's been arrested 73 times over the years under dozens of different aliases, and the assistant DA says they've had trouble verifying her identity because she "virtually burned off the fingers on both hands, which makes fingerprinting virtually impossible." In an interview with the Post, she explained that "my father died when I was young, so I had to go to work. I was a model in the Fashion District. I did that for years, but then I had an accident and broke three bones in my back and went on disability." She says she's not a "career criminal" but stole "just to get the things I need."

It turns out that senior citizen who was deemed a "pickpocket terrorist" by an unidentified cop after her wallet-snatching arrest at Fairway is pretty hardcore. The Post reports that the 76-year-old ex-con cannot be fingerprinted because she burned all her fingertips. Experts (or anyone who's seen Se7en) say that to permanently remove fingerprints one would have to use corrosive acid, burn them, or get plastic surgery. It's not known how the woman got rid of hers, and because of her penchant for aliases, even her lawyer can't figure out her real identity: "She keeps bouncing addresses. She moves here and there every few months. To be honest, I don't even know her real name." This is getting creepy! Maybe tomorrow we'll find out she has no DNA?

A 76-year-old ex-con who's been arrested some 37 times over the past three decades is behind bars again after being caught in a sting operation at the Upper West Side Fairway on Broadway. Responding to complaints about pickpockets working the aisles, undercover cops left a wallet in a shopping cart and arrested the woman after she allegedly stuffed it into her bra, sources tell the Post. The suspect, who goes by many aliases—the most current being Katherine Kelly—most recently did a year at Rikers after being caught thieving while on parole.