Cops Searching For Elderly Pickpocket Who Swiped Wallet At Kings Highway Grocery Store

Police are searching for an elderly man with a cane who allegedly swiped a woman’s wallet at a Kings Highway grocery store earlier this month.

The pickpocket made his move at 3pm on January 16 inside Mama Liza’s Gourmet Foods, located at Kings Highway and East 18th Street, according to the NYPD. Cops say he pulled a wallet out of a 47-year-old woman’s pocket book. The wallet contained credit and debit cards and an undetermined amount of money, police say.

The NYPD provided surveillance photos of the suspect.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.