Cane-carrying robber flashes knife, steals woman's iPhone on NYC subway: cops - New York Post

Cops are looking for a cane-carrying antheral who flashed a weapon astatine a pistillate and stole her Apple iPhone 13 successful a Big Apple subway presumption past week.

The 24-year-old pistillate was walking down the stairs into the subway astatine 7th Avenue and West 53rd Street astir 7 p.m. Friday erstwhile a antheral “walking up the stairs displayed a weapon and demanded her compartment phone,” constabulary said.

The antheral wanted for stealing a woman’s telephone successful subway.DCPI

The unfortunate complied and handed her telephone to the robber, who fled the station, cops said.

Police released video that shows the antheral carrying a metallic cane successful 1 manus portion looking astatine a telephone successful the other.

Police accidental the antheral flashed a weapon astatine the woman.DCPI

The idiosyncratic being sought is described arsenic a antheral successful his 30s with a mean build, who was past seen wearing a achromatic and achromatic hooded bubble overgarment and achromatic pants.

Anyone with accusation successful respect to this incidental is asked to telephone the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline astatine 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) oregon for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The nationalist tin besides taxable their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website astatine https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/or connected Twitter @NYPDTips.

Video shows the antheral walking with a cane.DCPI

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