Police & Fire

Cops Search For ‘Pink Lady’ In Degraw Street Metrocard Halloween Ripoff

Donny Levit

Dec 6, 2016 — 1 min read

177 Degraw Street. (Image via Google Maps)

While many were digging through their Halloween bounty for their favorite candy after a night of trick-or-treating, a suspect was pinching a pocketbook out of a car in Cobble Hill.

Degraw Street Metrocard Ripoff suspect — Extremely small photo via NYPD

Cops say that on Monday, October 31, someone snatched that pocketbook from the inside of a parked car in front of 177 Degraw Street (at Cheever Place near the BQE) at approximately 11:30pm.

An unidentified individual then attempted to use a stolen Metrocard from that pocketbook a few days later on Wednesday, November 2 at a Canal Street train station turnstile in Manhattan.

Cops describe the individual as female, black, and last seen wearing a pink jacket.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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