There’s a new robbery gang in town. Unsurprisingly, the gang chose CitiBike e-bikes to maraud Manhattan on Monday March 17, and steal the headphones off at least seven people’s heads: five women, two men.
Because CitiBike e-bikes—which can travel 20 mph with no physical effort—are easily stolen and can be checked out by means which leave no record of their actual user, NYPD is asking for help in ascertaining the identity and whereabouts of the perpetrators.
The e-bike rampage began in the West Village, and continued in Harlem, Central Park and the Upper East Side. The likelihood that such a geographically wide-ranging crime spree could have occurred on pedal bicycles is remote…