Identity Thief Tries To Spend Hundreds At Park Slope Footlocker

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Police are asking for the public's help to find a man that tried to buy hundreds of dollars worth of shoes with another person's credit card.

The suspect went into a Footlocker on 5th Avenue around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday and tried to buy $365 worth of sneakers with a credit card that belonged to a. 39-year-old woman, police said. When the credit card was declined, the man fled the store without the sneakers.

He is wanted for grand larceny.

Police described the suspect as a black man last seen wearing a black knit hat, yellow doo-rag, light color denim jacket with a patch on the right shoulder, blue jeans, a black hooded shirt with a logo and tan boots.

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 WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

Photo taken from video provided by NYPD.