Tag: Mugging
A Crown Heights resident lost $1,100 worth of the futuristic digital currency bitcoin in an old-fashioned stick-up last week, DNAinfo reports. The man responded to a Craigslist offer to trade bitcoin for cash. He met the thief on May 27 at the corner of Troy Avenue and Crown Street, and got into a parked car […]
The biggest badass of the month is a 54 year-old-man who was mugged in the West Village, then chased his attacker through a subway tunnel. DNAinfo explains what went down. Jeff Hamm, 54, snatched $94 in cash and a $2 lighter from a 54-year-old man at Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street about 7:30 a.m. Feb. 9, police said. […]