New images show a pair of gun-toting crooks — and their female accomplice — wanted in a series of muggings outside swanky Big Apple eateries that netted them more than $300,000 in loot, police said Friday. The surveillance photos released by the NYPD shows one of the suspected thieves holding hands with a brunette woman in a black bra top and shorts who possibly acted as a lookout during some of the high-end heists, police said. Another shot shows a similar-looking woman in a white T-shirt and jeans holding hands with the same alleged robber, though the NYPD wasn’t immediately able to confirm she was the same person.
The lookout possibly helped out the duo in the most recent stick-up at around 7:45 p.m. on June 26 when one of the crooks pointed a gun at a Canadian tourist’s head and snatched his $40,000 Rolex watch on the restaurant-lined corner of MacDougal and Bleecker streets in Greenwich Village, cops said.
The thief also grabbed an 18K gold bracelet valued at $2,000 from the 58-year-old victim before meeting a moped-riding accomplice in the middle of the street and hopping on board, cops and sources said. The duo used a moped to make off with stolen jewelry and watches in several of the other six heists, which span back to March, police said. No injuries were reported in the series of high-end crimes, cops said.
The priciest proceeds came on June 18, when the pair allegedly swiped a man’s $100,000 Patek Philippe timepiece outside the Greenwich Village hotspot C.