From the Daily News:
A 50-year-old Queens man has been collard for a crime spree against motorists where he posed as a Good Samaritan then ripped them off as they were distracted, police said.
Mario Gutierrez, of College Point, was involved in four of the 16 incidents since August — 13 in Queens — where a team of thieves used similar tactics, police said.
In one case, Gutierrez swiped $40,600 in cash from a man who had just come out of a bank, police said. Authorities believe at least two other suspects were involved in the crime spree.
One man would tell the victim that he or she has a flat tire, and while the driver was checking for damage an accomplice swiped valuables from the car, cops said.
In some cases, the tires may have been slashed beforehand by the suspects. In the majority of cases, there was no damage at all, a police source told the Daily News on Tuesday.
In three incidents, the con men also sprayed victims’ jackets with unknown substances or convinced them to take off their outerwear for cleaning, then the suspects emptied the pockets, cops said.
3 comments:
College Point looks like it is going Latino. Check out all of the new businesses which have sprung up along College Point Boulevard...chicken shacks, restaurants, bodegas, etc.
Of course the Asians have their new gated communities along the water to protect them from the intrusion of these perps.
How is it that these gated communities still get NYC garbage pick up?
Why are my tax dollars subsidizing them in this way?
How come they don't pay for their own private sanitation services?
The remarks of Latino is a bit racist. But the gated communities also pay property taxes, sewage, etc. to NYC. It's basically townhouses with gates around it. Similar to a condo building with a common area.
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