Thieves trick 93-year-old woman into handing over £2k in jewellery to ‘test’ it

03 August 2023 , 01:05

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A picture released of one of the suspected thieves (Image: DCPI)

Thieves have stolen $3,000 (£2,400) of jewellery from a 93-year-old woman after convincing her to hand the valuables over so they can "test it".

Police have released pictures of the two suspects behind the alleged plot against the pensioner who lives in the Cypress Hills neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City. “The individuals asked the victim to hand over $3,000 dollars worth of jewellery to test it and walked away with the jewellery,” according to officials.

The two suspects then fled on foot but pictures of them were picked up on nearby CCTV. It is not entirely clear why the lady handed over her jewellery. In the pictures of the suspects, one is wearing a light-blue button-shirt, dark trousers and a grey cap. The other was wearing a striped black, red and white polo shirt, black trousers and a blue and white cap.

A picture of the other suspect (DCPI)

The two men allleged tricked the pensioner into handing over her jewellry (DCPI)

Last year a 78-year-old woman was filmed being dragged out of a taxi onto a street by the driver who she said tried to steal her phone and money.

The shocking incident, which was caught on video and posted to Twitter, shows the male driver pulling the woman out of the backseat and closing the car door as she lies on the street trying to save herself by whacking the driver with her walking stick.

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The woman had booked the Access-A-Ride taxi service to take her to a physical therapy appointment in Brooklyn, New York, in the US. She raised the alarm after she noticed that the driver drove past the drop-off point. She claims he refused to let her out of the vehicle.

The men made off with the jewellry (Getty Images/amana images RF)

The pair got into an argument that ended with the driver ripping her out of the car by her leg around 3:30 pm, on East 35th Avenue near the corner of Avenue N in Marine Park, the report said.

A 35-year-old member of the public passing by tried to intervene after seeing the horrific incident. "What's going on?" he says. "Call the police, he stole my phone", the woman shouts out while lying on the floor screaming in distress.

The man got the victim's phone back, which is when the driver fled in his vehicle and hit the member of the public who was trying to block him from fleeing the scene.

The good Samaritan then checked on the woman, asking if she was okay. She replied that she wasn’t okay. “I’m a 78-year-old lady and he threw me out of the cab, he took my money, he took my phone,” she said.

Charlie Jones