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Police Search For Suspect in Bronx 6 Train Phone Theft

By Anton K. Nilsson | September 2, 2015 8:08pm
Police Search For Suspect in 6 Train Phone Theft
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BRONX — Police are looking for a teenage boy suspected of stealing a 17-year-old girl's cellphone on a southbound 6 train last week.

The suspect snatched the phone out of the victim's hand as the train rolled into the Saint Lawrence Avenue station in The Bronx Sunday afternoon, police said.

The suspect was caught on surveillance camera running north on Westchester Avenue with a phone in his hand, according to the NYPD. 

The suspect is a bespectacled teenage boy who was wearing shorts, a blue T-shirt and multicolored shoes at the time of the incident, police said.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).