Defendant, acting as a "stall" in a pickpocketing ploy on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on July 5, 1987, feigned illness and grabbed the "mark's" arm while the "dip" lifted the wallet, containing a credit card, from the "mark's" purse and slipped it to the defendant. The victim, holding on to her purse, grappled with defendant and regained possession of...
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