Thieves Snatch Purse From 73-Year-Old Woman’s Walker While She Waits For Access-A-Ride, Cops Say

Cops say a pair of thieves swiped a purse off a 73-year-old woman’s walker last month while she waited for an Access-A-Ride outside her home near Coyle Street and Avenue U.

The suspects approached the septuagenarian on the street just before 9am on Friday, November 20, according to authorities. While she waited to be picked up by an Access-A-Ride, a transit service for people with disabilities, the thieves snatched the purse off her walker and fled, police say.

The suspects are described as black men, one wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, gray sweat pants. The other had on a black hooded sweat shirt with yellow lettering in the front, black pants and black sneakers.

The NYPD provided surveillance photos of the two men.

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