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VIDEO: Trio Steals Coins From Bronx Washing Machine, NYPD Says

By Kathleen Culliton | August 18, 2016 6:21pm

MELROSE — Police are looking for a woman and two men who stole the contents of a washing machine coin box from a Bronx laundry room in July.

Two men, one wearing a blue Army T-shirt, snuck into the laundry room of a residential building on E. 152 St. between Tinton and Union avenues at around 2:15 a.m. on July 30, police said.

A woman wearing a striped dress and black backpack acted as lookout as the men broke into the coin box and stole an unknown amount of coins, police said.

Surveillance video captured images of the suspects meeting in the lobby, said police.

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