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Thieves Snatch Cash from Taxi Driver Counting Change, Police Say

By Lisha Arino | November 20, 2015 6:06pm | Updated on November 22, 2015 8:21pm
 A cab driver was robbed by his fares in the Lower East Side this week.
A cab driver was robbed by his fares in the Lower East Side this week.
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LOWER EAST SIDE — Police said two thieves stole about $80 from a cab driver Sunday night after he dropped them off in front of 675 Water St.

The 51-year-old driver picked them up at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue and followed the duo’s directions to the waterfront, where they got out of the cab at around 11:10 p.m., and asked the driver for change, police said.

While the driver was counting change, one of the men reached into the passenger-side window and took $80 from the diver’s hands before both suspects ran to the Vladeck Houses nearby, police said.

The thieves were described as two men who were about 25 years old, with one of them standing at 5-foot-6, according to the NYPD.

Other recent crimes in the 7th Precinct include:

► Five women lost their iPhones after hanging out at a local club over the weekend, police said.

The women — a group of friends who were 23 years and 42 years old — entered Dark Room at 165 Ludlow St. at midnight on Nov. 15, according to the NYPD.

Police said one of them realized her iPhone 6 was missing at around 2:30 a.m., even though it had been in her bag she was holding. Her friends, who also had iPhones, realized their phones were gone too, police said. One of the women also realized her credit card was taken, police said.

Phone calls to Dark Room connected to a prerecorded message saying its lines were busy. Other contact information for the bar was not immediately available.

► A 26-year-old woman found all the lights turned on in her East Houston Street apartment and the bedroom window over her fire escape open when she got home from a trip to Chicago Tuesday evening, police said.

The woman told police she locked her apartment before she left for the Windy City the previous week, according to the NYPD. Police said $20 in coins were lifted from her home.