Posted on 09/09/2016 3:06:04 PM PDT by lowbridge
A 26-year-old man has been arrested in the East Harlem mugging of a 93-year-old woman in a wheelchair.
Authorities say Broyoan Lopez, of Brooklyn, is charged with robbery, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
The NYPD Warrant Squad reportedly picked him up near Grand Central Terminal just before 7 a.m. Friday.
"He hurt me, he hurt me right there and in the arm right there," victim Maria Vasquez said. "Because I tried to grab him, but he pushed my arm away. And that's where I got hurt."
Vasquez was just trying to buy slippers from Regine's on East 116th Street in Harlem on Friday when police say Lopez stuck his hands in her bra and took the $600 in Social Security money that she had cashed a few doors down.
It bothered the store owner Josh Cohen so much that he cut a $600 check and gave it to Vasquez Friday afternoon, and he threw the slippers in for free.
Just an hour earlier, Lopez had left the 25th Precinct in handcuffs.
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93-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Woman Robbed in East Harlem Store
There was a gofundme page that raised an additional 1900 dollars for her. The gofundme campaign has ended.
The story about the bodega owner touched me and reminded me of how I once reported a wilding in a Korean dress store to the shoe store next door to it - I didn’t know what else to do! The man behind the register - a huge black man - picked up a baseball bat and charged into those thugs and they scattered like roaches. NYC can be a bad place and a very wonderful place.
Put me in a locked room with him. I would enjoy myself and leave with a smile. Him, not so much.
What a low life friggin’ punk!
Robbing a 93 year old woman!
15 lashes!
This cretin should never again be allowed to see sunlight, or breathe fresh air!
Broyoan ?
Good bless you, Josh.
Caught near Grand Central! Pickpocket Central.
The only crime I’ve ever seen - a stolen wallet - happened in that vicinity.
He’s a low skunk to be robbing anyone, let alone a 93 y/o woman in a wheelchair!
Someone needs to buy Grandma a fannypak or something that wraps around the upper arm and has a pocket. The Bra method isn’t good in this day and age. Unless she maybe put a mousetrap in it first! ;SNAP!! followed by OWW!
Reminds me of the black gal I met 40 yrs ago....her name was De LOIS because her MOTHER couldn’t pronounce Delores!!! OMG.
And God bless you too.
Anyone else have SJW-subversive autocorrect? Drives me crazy. Betcha it doesn't mess with "Allah." See?
some one needs to off scum like this so granny can be free
Maybe his parents couldn’t decide between two names, so they mixed the sounds together. Sometimes it works, other times it just sounds odd. OR, it’s a fake name he cooked up on the spot.
‘Broyoan’ looks like the transliteration of ‘Brian’ as spoken by someone with an unhinged jaw.
someone with an unhinged jaw
or a parent with a partially developed brain
It was classy of the store owner to cut the check to the victim.
I object to my tax money being used to feed, cloth and house this shoe scraping.
A flogging and branding would be about right.
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