Group Ransacks Upper East Side Home During Robbery, NYPS Says

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is trying to identify two people wanted in connection with a home invasion robbery on the Upper East Side, police told Patch.

In August, a 19-year-old man living in an apartment near Madison Avenue and East 92nd Street was robbed when he opened his door for a woman knocking outside, police said. When the victim opened the apartment door, three men forced their way inside and threatened to pistol whip the man, police said.

The robbers never flashed a gun, but forced the victim inside the apartment's bathroom and told him not to come out, police said. While the man was in the bathroom, the robbers "ransacked" the apartment in search of valuables, police told Patch. The group fled the apartment with $500 in cash, two credit cards and six watches valued at a combined $67,000, police said.

A man and a woman were later seen trying to sell three of the stolen watches at a pawn shop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, police said.

The man is in his 20s or 30s with short brown hair and a mustache, police said. The woman is in her early 20s with light skin and brown hair, police said. Both were captured by the pawn shop surveillance camera.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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