A group of five masked burglars stole a stash of jewelry, Gucci products and other loot worth more than $64,000 from the back of UPS and FedEx trucks in a stealthy three-borough spree, cops and sources said.
The string of thefts began on April 1, when a single burglar raided a UPS truck on West 48th Street near Sixth Avenue in Midtown, a short walk from Rockefeller Center, around 7:45 p.m. April 1, authorities said.
Cops say the culprit bagged 84 packages during the heist – but it was unclear what they held, or the value of the items inside.
Then on May 10, two brazen broad-daylight crooks barged into a FedEx truck parked on Washington Street near West 13th Street in the Meatpacking District, just under the High Line, cops said.
They snatched up eight Gucci boxes holding about $29,730 in designer loot from the truck during the 12:20 p.m. burglary, police said.
In another heist around 5:45 p.m. June 4, two sticky-fingered suspects used a burglar tool to force their way inside a UPS truck on West 45th Street near Fifth Avenue, again in Midtown, authorities said.
They grabbed multiple bags of jewelry, described as “precious metals” worth at least $100, as two partners-in-crime acted as lookouts, cops said.
The next stick-up came on June 7, when a single thief managed to snag multiple clear plastic bags holding 122 packages worth about $12,000 from a UPS truck on Madison Avenue near East 55th Street, authorities and sources said.
Four months passed before a man and woman – joined by a lookout – used a burglar tool to pry open the door of a UPS truck on 47th Avenue near 30th Place in Long Island City around 10:30 a.m. Oct. 15, police said.
It’s unclear how much that stash was worth.
Then around noon Oct. 18, another solo thief broke into a locked UPS truck on Ludlow Street near Stanton Street on the Lower East Side, cops said.
The brazen burglar grabbed a package holding nine Apple iPhones, two Android phones and one Apple Watch – valued at about $9,500 in total, authorities said.
In a Halloween heist, one burglar broke into a locked UPS truck on Fifth Avenue near Ninth Street in Park Slope around 10:15 a.m. – while two others kept watch, police said.
They bagged a package holding Apple products worth about $13,450 before fleeing, cops said.
Finally, around 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5, one bandit raided another UPS truck on Fifth Avenue near 13th Street, also in Park Slope, police said.
That person swooped up two packages and fled, cops said. The value of that stash is unclear.
No arrests had been made by Friday.
The NYPD released video this week of the suspects carrying bags and boxes of their pilfered goods.
Anyone with information on the crime spree 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 https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/or on X @NYPDTips.
