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Uber Taxi Stolen After Driver Left Keys Inside During Coffee Break: NYPD

By Gustavo Solis | February 26, 2015 2:22pm
 A man had his car stolen when he ran into a restaurant to get coffee and left the keys in the ignition. 
A man had his car stolen when he ran into a restaurant to get coffee and left the keys in the ignition. 
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EAST HARLEM — He was only gone for five minutes. 

An Uber car service driver who left the keys to his Honda SUV in the ignition while ducking into a restaurant for coffee came out to find the car had been stolen, according to the NYPD.

The 24-year-old driver, whose name was not released, stopped by the New Ivoire Restaurant on West 119th Street and Park Avenue around 5:45 a.m. February 16, police said. When he came out, the 2013 Honda Venza was gone.

The driver's Uber phone and Taxi and Limousine Commission license were inside the $51,000 car, police said.

An employee at the restaurant declined to comment.

Other recent crimes in the 25th Precinct:

► An EMT had his city-issued electronic tablet stolen while treating a heart attack patient at Ward Island’s homeless shelter, police said.

An ambulance responded to the scene at 8:45 p.m. on February 19. The first responder left the $3,500 tablet, which is used to store medical data and access records, on a stretcher to move the patient into the ambulance, police said. 

After he finished treating the patient, he noticed the tablet was missing, he said.

A man stole a $600 electric guitar from the basement of a laundromat.

The man, who police described as standing 5-foot-8 with a slim build, snuck into the Sunrise Laundromat on 215 East 116th Street about 6:50 a.m. of February 16, police said. 

When he left the store he had the Fender guitar strapped on his back and was carrying a black duffel bag and a blue case.

Employees also noticed $340 of electric cables missing, police said.