{"id":104174,"date":"2024-02-05T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/migrants-allegedly-snatched-phones-from-62-women-in-nyc-crime-spree-police\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:02:47","slug":"migrants-allegedly-snatched-phones-from-62-women-in-nyc-crime-spree-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/migrants-allegedly-snatched-phones-from-62-women-in-nyc-crime-spree-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants allegedly snatched phones from 62 women in NYC crime spree: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-05\/GEttyRF_011723_nypd.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Tim Drivas Photography\/GETTY Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Three migrants were arrested in the Bronx overnight Monday for a citywide crime spree that included stealing women&#8217;s phones off the street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department executed a search warrant at the suspected safe house and made the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>They are expected to be charged with multiple robberies and grand larcenies and more individuals are being sought.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are all believed to be from Venezuela, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were linked to a pattern of at least 62 incidents of women having their pocketbooks and phones snatched, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe the suspects were snatching the phones to access the Apple Pay feature, and using credit cards linked to the phones to buy items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most migrants come to NYC in search of a better life. Sadly, some come to commit crime,&#8221; NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. &#8220;Today we made tremendous progress in the largest robbery pattern plaguing our city. Our message is simple &#8212; commit a crime in our city and we will find you and bring you to justice!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The arrests are the second prominent case involving migrants in the city in as many weeks. Last week, at least six asylum-seekers were arrested for assaulting police officers in Times Square in a case caught on video. More suspects involved in the attack are still being sought, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Police and prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office are also investigating whether the first four defendants, who were released without bail, subsequently boarded a bus to California using fake names.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Drivas Photography\/GETTY Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Three migrants were arrested in the Bronx overnight Monday for a citywide crime spree that included stealing women&#8217;s phones off the street, police said. The New York Police Department executed a search warrant at the suspected safe house and made the arrests. They<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/migrants-allegedly-snatched-phones-from-62-women-in-nyc-crime-spree-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}