Two Crooks Rob Woman for iPhone on G Train Sunday

Two crooks snatched a woman’s iPhone out of her hands while riding the G train at Fourth Ave.-Ninth Street subway station Sunday, April 28, an NYPD spokesman said.  

According to the NYPD’s Transit Bureau, two women boarded a G train at 15th Street-Prospect Park at around 8 p.m. on Sunday at the same time as the 26-year-old victim.  

As the victim sat down in the second-to-last car, she pulled out her iPhone and started playing a game. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw two black women wearing green baseball hats looking at the subway map and talking about how they need to transfer to the R train at Fourth Ave.-Ninth Street.  

According to the victim, a 26-year-old Park Slope resident, as the train pulled into Fourth Ave.-Ninth Street she saw a hand come into her field of vision and snatch her iPhone from her hands. The two crooks then ran off the train and the victim gave chase.  

One of the crooks started to slow down and taunted the victim as she yelled at them to stop and give her cellphone back.  

“‘Don’t yell at me, I didn’t steal your phone. I’m just laughing at you,’” the victim told Patch how one of the crooks responded to her pleas.  

After running down the stairs to the lobby of the Fourth Avenue station, the victim lost sight of the crook. The victim then got back onto a G train to Greenpoint and reported the incident to the police.  

“It’s not even about the phone, I just feel violated,” the victim said of the robbery. “It all seemed so casual and practiced and it made me so angry.”  

The victim also said that before her iPhone was stolen, the two crooks were talking about what they were going to have for dinner and how to get back home.  

"They obviously didn't live in the neighborhood and were here for work or just visiting," she said. 

The victim described her assailants as two black women, about 20-years-old, both wearing a dark green baseball hat and blue jeans.