Problem with this “sting” is it entraps both the guilty and innocent. I’m suspicious about this guy’s intent but it’s possible he’s telling the truth, and there is no way to prove otherwise.
If the cops want to do a real sting, dress cops up as old ladies a la Sylvester Stalone in Nighthawks and go at it.
you don't hear about this in the bronx or brooklyn because the people who pick up the wallets up there have warrants and priors. and you have actual crime going on up there in the outer boroughs. this is only news in manhattan.
Don’t be so suspicious.
I was in NYC and racing to the airport. Dropped cash wallet and cellphone (I carry one cash, accessible, wallet and one with credit cards etc.)
A few days later, visiting family in another state I got a call from the New Yorker who had picked up the wallet in the street, found the phone number list on the (locked) phone and, at his own expense, called those numbers until he found me so he could return the wallet (with every penny) and the phone.
Yes, I mailed back a reward.
Was there anyone there to turn the wallet in too ?
Tokens are dispensed vs attendants in a booth in some places, cops are plains clothes, no lost and found department near said bench ?? LOL....etc etc .....
Take em too court......