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Man With Face Tattoos Steals 17-Year-Old Girl’s iPhone on 7 Train: NYPD

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July 1, 2021 By Allie Griffin

Police are looking for a tattoo-clad man who stole a teenage girl’s phone on the 7 train in Woodside last month.

The alleged thief grabbed an iPhone out of the hands of a 17-year-old girl as she sat inside a 7 train that was stopped at the 69th Street station at 3:30 p.m. on June 19.

He then ran off with the phone, police said.

The NYPD described the suspect as a Hispanic man with tattoos over both eyebrows.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips.

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