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Cops seek subway purse snatchers who truck aboard Manhattan A train

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Cops releases security camera footage on Feb. 7 of the two suspects wanted for snatching a woman’s purse aboard a northbound A train earlier this month.
NYPD

Cops are looking for the ne’er do wells who robbed a women of her purse aboard a northbound A train earlier this month.

According to authorities, at around 5:40 p.m. on Feb. 1, two unknown perpetrators walked up to a 32-year-old woman on an A train approaching the West 14th Street-8th Avenue subway station in Manhattan. The pair then allegedly simulated a firearm and snatched the woman’s purse before fleeing in an unknown direction.

Police released surveillance images of the suspects on Feb. 7.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.