CROWN HEIGHTS — A chain-snatching thief has attacked two women in Brooklyn in the past month, including a 71-year-old woman shopping at a local deli, police said.
The most recent incident took place just before 4 p.m. on Friday inside of Tony’s Meat Market, a deli at the corner of Nostrand and Lefferts avenues in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, police said. The suspect approached the 71-year-old woman while she was shopping and yanked her gold chain off her throat, police said.
Photos taken from surveillance footage at the time of the incident show the suspect wearing a white hoodie, baseball cap and a backpack.
Police said they believe the same man committed a similar robbery about a week earlier, when he allegedly grabbed a chain off a female victim’s neck at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 16, near the corner of Utica Avenue and Carroll Street in Crown Heights. Surveillance footage from that incident shows the suspect wearing a purple jacket, a black cap, jeans and white sneakers.
The suspect is approximately 30 years old and stands 6-foot-1, police said. Anyone with information about the incidents or the suspect are encouraged to call the 71st Precinct at 718-735-0501.
