EAST HARLEM — A gentleman bandit with a discerning eye was arrested for snatching a cellphone from a woman in a fancy car, police said.
“Excused me miss, give me your phone,” Terry Fraizer, 23, told the woman as she sat in her car on Madison Avenue about noon on April 13, according to police.
The woman tried to hold onto the iPhone 6 but Fraizer was able to pull it out of her hands. He then ran toward the Willis Avenue Bridge, police said.
When officers arrested him a few minutes later, Fraizer told officers, “I saw her driving a nice car so I thought she had [the phone].”
Officers did not know the specific make and model of the car.
Fraizer was charged with robbery and is being held at Rikers Island on a $5,000 bond. His next court date is Monday, records show.
His lawyer could not be found in the public records.
Other recent crimes in the 25th Precinct:
►A teenager left in charge of her younger siblings stole her mother’s $4,500 luxury watch, two tablets and a flat-screen TV, police said.
The 18-year-old was babysitting at 55 East 115th St. Friday afternoon, according to police.
She has not been heard from since taking the Movado diamond watch and the electronics, according to the NYPD.
It is not the first time the suspect has done something like this, police said.
►An 18-year-old man was beaten by two other men because he did not live in the Lincoln Houses, police said.
The victim was sitting at the southeast edge of Marcus Garvey Park on Friday when two men walked up to him and asked him if he lived at the NYCHA development.
He told the men that he was not from Lincoln, that he was from the West Side, according to police.
One of the men punched him in the face and the other took the bicycle.
