NEW YORK – Police are searching for the suspect believed to have stolen a power wheelchair from a 95-year-old man on the Upper West Side.
The mobility device was allegedly stolen from outside a professional office on West End Avenue and West 73rd Street around 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to police. The victim left the electric wheelchair outside and when he returned two hours later, it was gone.
A police investigation found that the chair, valued at $2,570, had been taken by an unidentified man just 10 minutes after the victim entered.
The suspect was caught on surveillance camera in the wheelchair on the sidewalk of southbound West End Avenue later that day. He has not yet been captured, and an investigation is ongoing.
If you have information you can call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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