At least 10 shoppers have been robbed in Costco and Bed & Bath parking lots in five different Long Island communities in the last month by people pretending to need to help, Suffolk County police said Thursday as they revealed the apparent scheme.
Sophisticated robbery teams appear to be targeting women in retail parking lots on Long Island, with one pretending to need help as another snatches her wallet or credit cardsAt least 10 shoppers have been robbed in Costco and Bed & Bath parking lots in five different Long Island communities in the last month by people pretending to need to help, Suffolk County police said Thursday as they revealed the apparent scheme.
The most recent case in the pattern came Wednesday, cops say. A woman was in the Costco parking lot on Garet Place in Commack around 3:30 p.m. when a man walked up to her and asked for directions, according to police. It wasn't clear what she said, but when she went back to her vehicle, cops say she noticed her wallet was missing from the passenger seat.
The woman went back into Costco to see if someone had returned her wallet and saw the man who had asked her about directions, along with another man at the entrance to the store. They ran when they saw her, police said. That led investigators to unravel a sprawling scheme in which up to four people, sometimes two men, sometimes two women and a man, appear to be targeting retail shoppers, especially Costco customers, in Suffolk County parking lots since July 14. All of the 10 so-called"deception thefts" involved one person asking for directions while another steals credit cards.
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