Posted on 01/28/2019 8:08:47 AM PST by Theoria
A man and woman walked out of a subway car at the 51st Street station in Manhattan and darted into the next one on the same train. A plainclothes police officer noticed.
It was rush hour on a Tuesday evening in September on the busy No. 6 line. The officer watched as the woman dipped her hand into a commuter’s purse while her partner stood in front of her, shielding her from view, according to the officer’s affidavit. The woman lifted out a wallet, and the officer and his partners closed in.
She threw the wallet to the ground, and the commuter quickly identified it as hers. The woman, Jenny Gomez Velandia, 27, and her accomplice, John Diaz-Albarracin, 31, were arrested, according to a criminal complaint. What seemed like a routine pickpocketing had been thwarted.
But the suspects were not routine. Unlike most pickpockets, they had no criminal history in New York City. They were not locals. They were from Colombia and had come to New York for the purpose of stealing wallets on subways, one of several international pickpocket rings to descend on the transit system in 2018, the police said.
“They come, they do what they can do, then they move,” said Chief Edward Delatorre, who leads the Police Department’s transit bureau. The woman and man arrested in September were tied to nine other thefts in the subway, the police said.
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'When pickpockets are arrested, however, a second advantage comes into play. Their lack of a criminal history in New York leads to light sentences. Mr. Jimenez, after pleading guilty to grand larceny, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, prosecutors said. Mr. Pinzto, 18, was sentenced to three days of community service; Mr. Santos is 17, and thus his case was sealed. The two from Colombia received 70 hours.'
Register them to vote right away.
A microcosm of what the Democratic Party and the New York Times does to the American taxpayer.
Deporting future democrats is racist...
He was short and swarthy.
They Came,
They Saw,
They Pickpocketed!
I wouldn’t think that democrat congresscritters rode subways.
The title makes it sound like they should have some kind of union — the International Pickpockets Association ;-)
They should run for COngress
How can you spot a real New Yorker ?
They don’t live there anymore.
Yes, it is a small-scale model for what goes on at a macro level.
With pickpockets, you merely lose what’s in your wallet at the moment. Cash - $100, $200... poof. Can limit it to that if you stop the credit cards.
But, at the macro level, you lose 50%, 70% with the ilk of AOC, or higher, of your year-to-year earnings. Maybe soon to your wealth.
Just one more method of redistributing income from those who earn it to those who vote democrat.
Barcelona is the worst.
When I travel, I never wear a wallet. I have a neck wallet with a strap that cannot be cut.
And they do it legally!
so they are in the country legally....
“International Pickpockets Association” aka the Democrat Party
Yep, Barcelona is notorious for pickpockets. I wore a money belt when I was there. Beautiful city, though.
Hah!
In Europe in general, you really have to watch out for the gypsies.
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