NYPD releases images of four brazen robbers who staged a $50,000 raid on a Manhattan Givenchy
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The New York Police Department released footage Thursday of four robbers who held up a Givenchy store in Manhattan in a brazen dawn raid, smashing their way in with a hammer and fleeing on foot with $50,000 worth of goods.
The three men and one woman broke into the SoHo store at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, New York police said.
The store’s security alarm was not activated at the time of the raid on the main level, the new york post office reported, and the gate gate was not down because a security guard was on duty.
It was not clear where the guard was at the time of the robbery.
The gang is seen in surveillance footage, released Thursday, looting the Givenchy store.
One of the robbers is seen carrying a red duffel bag carrying stolen items.
Footage shows the four ransacking the store, grabbing piles of items, including bags, shoes and clothing, which they stuffed into duffel bags.
Three of the four brazen looters did not bother to cover their faces during the raid and have now been captured in clear surveillance footage released by police.
The group then fled on foot after their spree of robberies, and the NYPD is asking for help finding them.
“The New York City Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals depicted in the attached media,” they said.
No one was injured in the raid.
Grand theft, the definition used when the theft is of more than $1,000 worth of property, is down slightly in New York City, year-over-year.
Givenchy’s SoHo store did not have an alarm on at the time of the raid
A woman (right) and three men participated in the raid
The man in the Yankees cap was seen looting the back room of the store
The thief can be seen stealing products from the shelves.
Three men and two women participated in the raid on Saturday morning
There have been 896 reported cases of grand theft so far this year, compared to 987 for the same period in 2022, a 9.2 percent decrease.
The number of shootings has increased year-over-year, with a 23.3 percent increase in victims from 30 in the first six weeks of 2022 to 37 so far this year.
Rapes have also increased, with 28 reported so far this year, compared to 25 last year.
All other crimes have decreased, but theft remains a major problem for the city.
On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams said the theft was costing low-income retail workers their hourly wages.
“So what we can’t do is allow repeat offenders to mock our criminal justice system, and repeatedly,” Adams said.
‘We are losing chain stores that are closing. The people who are being employed in those stores are losing their jobs.
‘They are adding to our unemployment.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams backed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to allow judges more leeway in determining bail amounts for criminal defendants
Staten Island Assemblyman Mike Reilly had asked Adams about solutions to “organized retail crime” problems.
“People who say we are criminalizing the poor are wrong,” Adams continued.
“Poor and low-income New Yorkers are out of work because we are losing those businesses in our city.”
The mayor said there were three basic categories of thieves plaguing the city: those who are ‘part of an organized crime network’; those with substance abuse problems; and ‘those who need basic services’.
The first group, Adams said, must be dealt with by the criminal justice system.
Others should be granted deferred prosecution for social service workers to address their underlying issues.
An alleged thief is arrested on August 11, 2021 in downtown New York City.
Police escort a man from a pharmacy in New York City. Shoppers are seeing more and more empty shelves as businesses decide to keep slightly more expensive items under lock and key in the wake of increased crime.
A common site in New York City pharmacies these days is that common household items are locked away behind plastic boxes to prevent petty theft.
Leo Pichardo, left, a store associate at Gristedes supermarket, retrieves a container of Tide soap from a locked cabinet, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at the New York store. Increasingly, retailers are locking up more products or increasing the number of security guards in their stores to reduce theft.
Over-the-counter medications are one of many items that have become less accessible because they are locked up in the pharmacy and require the help of a clerk, making a household errand that much more cumbersome.
“A disproportionate share of serious crime in New York City is being driven by a limited number of extreme repeat offenders, approximately 2,000 people, who commit one crime after another while on the street on bail,” he said.
In August of last year, the New York Police Department released details on 10 career felons who, themselves, have racked up a staggering 500 arrests since the much-criticized bail reform law went into effect.
Several of them included two felons who began racking up arrests just as bail reform laws became the norm.
One of them has been arrested 33 times since 2020, the other racked up 22 arrests in the first seven months of 2022 alone.
Adams has repeatedly pointed out that the justice system’s current practice of ‘catch, release, repeat’ is one of the main drivers of crime in New York City.
Over the summer, Adams blamed the city’s criminal justice system for turning the Big Apple into the ‘laughing stock of our whole country.’