UPPER EAST SIDE — A teen tried to walk out of Barneys without paying for more than $1,000 worth of Givenchy T-shirts, just over a week after another teen was arrested for the same crime, according to the NYPD.
A 16-year-old boy snatched the two shirts from the 660 Madison Ave. department store and placed them in a brown Gucci bag before trying to walk past the registers without paying about 5 p.m. on Aug. 30, police said.
He was carrying one shirt worth $455 and another valued at $555 when security guards stopped him, according to authorities.
Police arrested the teen and he was charged with grand larceny.
Another teen, Samuel Javier, 18, was arrested just 10 days earlier for trying to steal two Givenchy shirts from the same Barneys store.
Police couldn't immediately say whether the two incidents were connected.
Other crimes that took place in the neighborhood include:
A 31-year-old man was busted after trying to steal 10 cartons of ice cream from a local Gristedes — the latest in a rash of ice cream thefts across the city, police said.
The suspect tried to walk out of the 1644 York Ave. grocery store with nine containers of Ben & Jerry's and one carton of Häagen-Dazs, worth a total of $59.90, stashed in his backpack about 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 31, according to authorities.
An employee who spotted the thief putting ice cream in his bag stopped him before he could walk out of the store, police said.
He was later arrested and charged with petit larceny and possession of stolen property, according to police.
He was given a desk appearance ticket, requiring him to go to court at a later date.
