Cops are hunting for a serial subway thief who snatches woman’s phones and makes his getaway on the train tracks, the NYPD said Sunday as it released video of the suspect.
The unknown man is wanted in connection with five separate cellphone grabs in Brooklyn in February and April, police said.
The latest larceny was reported on Wednesday at 5 a.m. after the thief grabbed a 26-year-old woman’s Galaxy Note 9 cell phone at the Franklin Ave station, jumped onto the train tracks and took off, according to authorities.
The woman told police she was standing at the station when he took the phone out of her hand.
Cops say the man’s pattern of cell phone snatching started on Feb. 13 when he grabbed a woman a 53-year-old’s woman’s LG phone, along with several credit cards and her ID, while she sat on northbound 5 train just before 8 a.m. according to police.
Two other thefts were reported on the northbound 2 train the next week — on the mornings of Feb. 20 and Feb. 22.
In the first of the two, the thief took a 53-year-old woman’s Galaxy Note while she was sitting on the train Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum station just before 6 a.m., according to police. The other occurred at the President Street station just after 8 a.m. when the man made off with a 48-year-old woman’s Galaxy Note 8, police said.
On Feb. 28, the man struck again — this time hitting a 39-year-old woman in the face with an unknown object before taking her Galaxy S9 while she stood on a platform at the Grand Army Plaza station at 10:45 p.m., according to police.
The NYPD released surveillance footage of the thief Sunday.