Chain, Headphone Snatchers on E-Bike Strike 17 Times Thru-out Bronx

The NYPD is searching for these men in connection with at least 17 headphone and chain snatchings throughout the Bronx and upper Manhattan. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

March 26, 2025

BRONX - The NYPD has now connected an additional 11 robberies to a string of chain and headphone snatchings throughout the Bronx and upper Manhattan over a two-month period. In one day, the crew is suspected of striking three times within a 10 minute period.

Investigators now believe the pair of robbers seen riding an e-bike first struck on February 20. 

At around 1:40 pm, an e-bike drove up to a 30-year-old in the vicinity of the Grand Concourse and East 182nd Street. He snatched headphones off the victim’s head and drove off. 

Five minutes later the same bike road up on a 21-year-old woman near Jerome Avenue and Fordham Road. The robber stole the headphones and rode off. 

Five minutes after that, the same thief clipped the headphones off the head of a 19-year-old male in the vicinity of East Fordham Road and Walton Avenue. 

Cops said the same serial thief then graduated to chain snatching. From February 25 until March 6, the same robber, now with an accomplice, rode through the Grand Concourse area and snatched chains off the necks of victims of both males and females. In total the suspects stole seven chains during six robberies stretching from 190th Street and the Grand Concourse down to Macombs Road. 

During another rash of robberies, the same crew is suspected of striking three times within 1 hour in one day stretching from Fordham Road to Morris Park. At around 7 pm on March 11, the crew ripped headphones off an 18-year-old woman’s head in the vicinity of Walton Avenue and East 170th Street. 

Forty minutes later the crew allegedly struck again. The robbers rode up and stole headphones off a 25-year-old woman’s head on Valentine Avenue. Twenty five minutes later, the headphones thief stole from a 44-year-old man on Morris Park Avenue. 

The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspects riding e-bikes. One was a black bike the other had shades of red and orange. In the video the suspects wore puffy winter coats, and black face masks.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident 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 Twitter @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.