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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