Crime & Safety

Police Seek New Hyde Park Purse Thief

The woman is wanted for stealing another person's pocketbook from T.J. Maxx, police say.

Police are looking to identify the woman who stole another person’s pocketbook from a New Hyde Park department store earlier this year.

On January 6, a woman inside T.J. Maxx, located 2315 New Hyde Park Road, was captured on surveillance camera taking someone’s pocketbook from the counter and fleeing the store in an unknown direction, police say.

The woman is wanted for grand larceny.

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Crime Stoppers is asking anyone who can identify this woman, or has any information about this crime to call their toll free hotline at 1-800-244-TIPS (8477).

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*Police released information on this crime Friday.

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