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Women Posing as Cabbies Rob Drunk Man They Picked Up at Bar: NYPD

By Alexandra Leon | February 17, 2016 5:26pm
 Two women pretending to be cab drivers stole more than $6,000 from a drunk man they picked up at an East Village bar, according to police.
Two women pretending to be cab drivers stole more than $6,000 from a drunk man they picked up at an East Village bar, according to police.
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CLINTON HILL — Two women pretending to be cab drivers stole more than $6,000 from a drunk man they picked up at an East Village bar, police said.

The 27-year-old man was leaving the bar at Second Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th streets, around midnight when the women pulled up next to him in a black car and asked him if he needed a cab, the NYPD said.

The man told police he was highly intoxicated and wasn’t sure if it was an actual cab, but got in anyway.

The only thing the man remembers is being in the backseat with one of the women, who told him he needed to pay for the cab ride as he was getting out at his home on Dekalb and Clinton avenues in Clinton Hill, police said.

When the man woke up later, he saw that his cell phone was missing and that several transactions had been made on his debit cards, according to police.

Between the cell phone and the debit card withdrawals, the women stole $6,913 from the man, police said.

No arrests have been made.