The migrants who jumped two of the city’s Finest last weekend in Times Square were part of a wolfpack of violent shoplifters who just moments before had snatched handbags in a nearby store and attacked an employee who tried to stop them, the manager told The Post.
“They always come in and take the handbags then they run,” the manager, who asked for anonymity, said of the migrants who hang out in front of the Candler Building shelter on West 42nd Street near Seventh Avenue.
“They do it all the time. It’s just ridiculous.”
She said five or six of the men came into Aldo on Jan. 27 at around 8:30 p.m., swiping handbags that go for as much as $85 each off a table.
She called the cops as one fought the cashier.
“When I came upstairs, she was tussling, trying to get the bag back,” the manager said.
“She got one bag back and the other guys took like two or three other bags.”
When the cops arrived, they recorded the store security video capturing the thieves in action.
