A man carrying 300 iPhones, worth some $95,000, was beaten and robbed near Apple Fifth Avenue early Monday morning, NYC police said.
Adam Warner and Carol D’Auria for Audacy:
The 27-year-old victim was targeted moments after he left Apple’s 24-hour New York flagship at E. 58th Street.
The victim regularly makes large purchases from Apple, as he resells the phones through his small business, according to police.
A store clerk put the phones—300 iPhone 13s—in three large bags around 1:45 a.m.
As the victim was walking to his car, another car pulled up alongside him. Two men jumped out of the car and demanded the bags, police said.
The victim put up a fight, sparking a struggle in which he was punched in the nose.
The bag contained 125 iPhones worth $95,000, according to police.
MacDailyNews Take: Seems like the thieves knew what was in the bags. Hopefully, police can track them down.
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Like Chicago, San Francisco, etc., NYC is just another Democrat-controlled, Democrat-destroyed cesspool of crime, graft, and corrupt dysfunction.
All the blue states are ridden with crimes, homeless, drugs, trash. Don’t know why people wanted their states awful like that, why they voted for D, there must be a reason for that.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
ahhhh more BlueState Canadians i’m guessing….
doesn’t sound like they talked politics, not sure why the radical right-wingers here see everything through that lens.
it sounds more like poor planning given the realities of urban life. Someone buying $100k worth of phones shouldn’t have done it at 2am or had security with him.
Point is, it shouldn’t matter what time of day the guy purchased the phones. Crime is crime at any hour, and Democrat run cities run rampant with crime.
as a republican myself, that’s a very strange thing to say.
he didn’t get robbed because NYC is a democrat run city. terrible things happen in population dense cities all the time, regardless of democrat or republican leadership.
furthermore, that part of NYC is a highly-policed, upscale area whether there’s democrats or republicans in charge. police don’t evaporate (and crime doesn’t escalate) on that block if a democrat is elected.
so to look at this crime and blame it on a political party, to see everything through that pinhole, just gets tiresome.
I blame 1) the criminal, and 2) the guy’s judgment – 2am? 100k? no security?
New Sam is much better that the old Sam.
Libturds are a parasitic cancer on the country.
Fuck libturds. FJB.
cynic>ESAD
Brilliant comments. Are there any cities that are prominently Republican? Progressive people like cities….stimulating for the mind, full of artistic opportunities. People in close proximity such as cities are more empathetic of their neighbors. Do cities have more crime. Hmmm.. perhaps over the last century. If you want to blame their mayors for crime, go ahead. Just tell me about some great cities with low crime in Red states.
Typical ridiculous liberal answer. It’s not the criminals fault—- they do what they do best steel. You’re the problem with this country.
they do what they do best steel. you lose all credibility when you use the wrong version of steel and steal.
I have a sneaky feeling that a repeat customer with orders of that magnitude could have his phones delivered by a secure courier service…don’tcha think?
how does one person actually CARRY 300 iPhones at at time?
For all the blather about “Democratic-run cities,” crime is actually far higher in GOP-run states. According to the latest figures, the highest crime rates (from worst to better) are found in:
1. South Carolina
2. New Mexico
3. Tennessee
4. Nevada
5. Louisiana
6. Florida
7. Arkansas
8. Arizona
9. Alaska
10. Delaware
11. Texas
12. Alabama
13. Oklahoma
14. Georgia
15. Maryland
http://www.usa.com/rank/us–crime-index–state-rank.htm
Forgot to add: There’s more crime in cities because there’s more PEOPLE in cities. You know the terrible murder rate in Chicago? It’s actually about in the middle of major cities. The cities with higher murder rates?
According to FBI stats from 2019 (the most recent available), St. Lous, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Kansas City, Cleveland, Memphis, Newark, Cincinnati, Mobile, Philadelphia and Milwaukee all had higher rates than ol’ evil Chicago.
And New York City was actually way way down on the list, between Garland Texas and Henderson Nevada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Crime is a function of City management, not state. Look to who runs the cities before making such a statement.
I have a suspicious feeling that this guy was being cased. There is no way that this car “randomly” appeared at that hour and knowing what was inside. I will even say it was an inside job that an employee might have tipped off the thieves.