Police say they are looking for a man behind at least
five different robberies, with at least four of them happening at the 6 train
stop located at Southern Boulevard and East 149th Street in the
South Bronx.
Surveillance video shows the first robbery among this
reported stretch of incidents that happened on Nov. 7, where News 12 was told
he and a group of people went up to a man leaving the 6 train, put him in a
headlock and started punching him as they took his phone and money from his
pockets.
Police are saying this was the only time the suspect in
question – 20-year-old Orlin Alvarez – was in a group. News 12 is told that he
was alone for at least three of the other robberies and had one person with him
for another. Two of the robberies at the 149th Street and Southern
Boulevard station involved Alvarez threatening people with a knife.
News 12 has been told by police that the two most recent robberies have turned violent and actually happened on board the 6 train, one where a 24-year-old man was punched in the face, and the other where a 28-year-old man was stabbed in the neck.
Despite this string of increasingly violent robberies,
police have informed News 12 that Alvarez does not have a criminal record.
Any information regarding these
incidents should be called into Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).