The police are looking for a woman who was caught on video slowly stealing the wallet of a shopper trying on a pair of boots at the Century 21 store in the Rego Center mall in Queens.
The video, made Jan. 20 and released Monday, shows the thief, a middle-aged woman with a heavy build and long black hair, sneakily and persistently inching her hand toward the other woman’s pocketbook as the woman pulls the boots on and off, apparently too preoccupied to notice the heist, which took a full 30 seconds.
The thief is sitting behind the victim and appears to use a nearby mirror to check her surroundings. When she finally grabs the wallet, she casually places it in her pocket, looks around, and ambles down the aisle and out of the video camera’s shot.
The thief is wanted for grand larceny. Anyone who can help the police solve the crime is asked to < href="http://a056-crimestoppers.nyc.gov/crimestoppers/public/index.cfm">contact Crime Stoppers.
