60k for flowers?

Filed under:News — posted by Tom on November 11, 2007 @ 3:54 pm

An Elderly woman in New York was certainly not expecting what was coming when she answered the door for the flower delivery service.  Disguised as delivery men, robbers  pushed their way into her apartment and stole the 60,000 cash that her husband had been saving.  Police released a surveillance video of the suspects in the crime.

The 80 year old victim, Carmen Nieves was talked into opening the door to accept the flowers. The thieves claimed the flowers were a gift from her husband who was out at the time. Nieves said she trusted them because they were young men. The thieves then pushed her into the house and tied her up.

The couple was planning on bringing the money to the bank the next day. It was their life savings.

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