Wednesday, August 5, 2020

New York's wealthy Upper East Side reports a shocking 286% increase in robberies - with armed gunmen holding up residents just feet from the homes of billionaires

UK Daily Mail  . . . "Last weekend, three teenagers held up man at gunpoint on the corner of East 65th St and Lexington Ave before making off with his wallet.
According to Fox New, financier Henry Kravis - who has a net worth north of $6.5 billion - lives just a 'stone's throw away'. 
The trio of thieves struck again a short time later on East 84th St and Fifth Ave, snatching a woman's cell phone. Billionaires John Paulson and Glenn Dubin reside close by. 
Cops later apprehend[ed] the teens - two aged 16 and one aged 17 - and seized a loaded gun. 
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