Police: Necklace theft on Upper East Side being treated as hate crime

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Two men are wanted in a robbery in Manhattan that is being treated as a hate crime.

Police say the pair snuck up behind a man on East 90th Street and Third Avenue on the Upper East Side and snatched his necklace.

The victim says one of the suspects made an anti-Semitic remark before they ran off.


There is no word on the value of the necklace.

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