A United Nations employee was busted for
robbing four Manhattan banks, all during
his lunch hour, authorities said.
Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, was picked up by
cops on Monday and hit with two counts of
robbery and two counts of attempted
robbery for the crimes committed during
his two-month spree, the New York Post
reports.
All four banks are within walking distance
of UN headquarters on First Ave. near E.
42nd St., where the Nigeria native works as
a journalist for an African news agency,
police said.
Authorities were led to the thief after a
retired police officer who works at the
facility recognized Shuaibu from a
surveillance image previously released by
the NYPD.
In the first incident, Shuaibu walked into a
Santander Bank on Madison Ave. near E.
43rd St. on Feb. 27 and told the teller he
had a gun. The bank employee complied
and handed Shuaibu an unknown sum of
money.
He hit two more banks during the month of
March, first striking out at a Bank of
America on Third Ave. near E. 47th St. on
the 13th. He was successful in robbing a
Santander Bank on Third Ave. and E. 63rd
St. on the 27th.
During the most recent incident on
Monday, Shuaibu walked into an HSBC on
Third Ave. and E. 40th St. around 2:30
p.m. and passed a note demanding cash to
the teller. The teller did not read the note
and asked Shuaibu for identification.
He then instructed the employee to read
the note, keeping his hand in his jacket
pocket while simulating a gun, police said.
Police arrested him later in the day when
he returned to the UN.
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