The NYPD is trying to find a shoplifter who allegedly brutally attacked a girl pharmacy employee on Friday in Manhattan after being confronted concerning the theft.
The alleged thief walked right into a Duane Reade in Morningside Heights about 10:30 a.m. Friday and started pilfering merchandise from a freezer and placing them in his bag, police stated.
When he was approached by a 21-year-old lady retailer worker who directed him to place the gadgets again, the person allegedly punched the employee within the face, grabbed her hair and threw her to the bottom, based on the NYPD.
The person — described by police as about 40 years previous, 6-feet tall and 200lbs — fled the shop east on Broadway whereas sporting a crimson jacket, blue denims and crimson boots. The sufferer was not severely injured within the incident, cops stated.
The incident on the pharmacy, situated on Broadway between 111th and 112th avenue, comes after a Manhattan Ceremony Assist house to a sequence of shoplifting incidents final week shut its doorways, in a beforehand introduced transfer. Additionally final week, a person was caught on video by The Put up allegedly stealing a few dozen steaks from a Manhattan Dealer Joe’s on Tuesday.
The “hamburglar” heist prompted the top of grocery store chain Gristedes to disclose he plans to beef up safety at his shops.
And final month, actor and comic Michael Rapaport fumed out in a social media publish about an alleged shoplifter overtly strolling out of a Manhattan Ceremony Assist whereas carrying luggage, casually strolling by a safety guard and out onto the road.
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