BREAK-IN, BURGLARY IN THE WEST 80’S
A young man’s apartment was robbed on Sunday, Dec. 30. The 24-year-old left his West 81st Street home at 6 p.m., and when he returned at around 11 p.m. he found his door open and his lights on. A Mac laptop, $4,000 camera, TV, a DVD player and $250 in cash were stolen. The victim remembers locking his door when he left. The robber(s) have yet to be identified and remain at large.

DISTRACTED BY ICE CREAM
A woman had her wallet stolen while grabbing a bite two weeks ago. At 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 27, the 44-year-old New Jersey resident stopped by an ice cream shop on Broadway, and hung her purse from the arm of her chair as she sat down to eat. When she went to pay, she dug into the purse for her wallet and found it was missing. She canceled her three credit cards, but not before unauthorized charges were made.

UPSCALE CLOTHING THEFT
A thief robbed an upscale clothing store on Columbus Avenue by sneaking items into a bag. The man entered the store around 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22, to browse, and the store’s workers failed to see him grab two jackets and three scarves from the store’s shelves and hide them. He then sauntered out of the store and escaped in an unknown direction. The items stolen were worth $2,373. Video surveillance may provide clues to the criminal’s identity, but as of now he is unidentified and wanted for grand larceny.

UPSCALE CLOTHING THEFT 2
On Dec. 29, another clothing store was robbed in a similar fashion. An unidentified thief entered the store on Broadway at 6 p.m. carrying a garbage bag, and managed to fill the bag with clothing and merchandise without being detected. According to the police report, items stolen included 70 women’s sweaters worth $4,800. The man fled the store, and the store’s workers called police 30 minutes later, but the thief remains at large and wanted for grand larceny.

MISSING RINGS
Three rings were stolen from a West 76th Street resident in November. The 31-year-old woman returned to her home from a trip at the end of the month and placed the three rings, all gold with ruby and diamond ornamentations, in a tote bag on her bedroom dresser. When she went to put on the rings for work on the morning of Nov. 28, however, they were gone. There were no signs of forced entry to the apartment, but the woman had allowed housekeeping and other workers into her apartment in the time between her return home and the rings’ disappearance. The three rings were worth $1,900. The thief is wanted for grand larceny.

WALLET STOLEN FROM A DOCTOR’S WAITING ROOM
A man in the waiting area of a doctor’s office lost his wallet when he left to answer a phone call. The victim, age unreported, was filling out medical forms in a medical building on West 59th Street at 3:45 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 28, when his phone rang. He left his wallet on the table and ran out of the room to take the call. When he returned just 30 to 45 seconds later, the wallet was gone. He lost credit cards and $140 cash. Police are working on identifying the thief, who is wanted for grand larceny.

A 40-year-old man and a trio of teenage girls were arrested on Saturday after attempting to rob an electronics store on Lexington Avenue. At around 1:45 p.m., the perps entered the store and removed six pairs of studio headphones worth almost $2,000. Police caught wind of the heist and pursued the robbers, and during the chase one perp pushed an officer to the ground to divert him, injuring his right hand. When the police caught the robbers, the officers found that they had wire cutters and booster bags in their car. Police recovered the headphones and arrested four of the crooks, but an unidentified fourth female accomplice escaped the scene and is still at large.

PIZZA PLACE ROBBERY

A pizza place on Second Avenue was robbed on Saturday. The burglary took place around 2 a.m., when an unknown perp broke the front window with a brick and climbed in. The perp swiped an iPad and a cash register with $1,500 cash, together worth roughly $2,000. Security cameras inside the location and at neighboring buildings picked up a few of the perp’s physical details, but the perp remains at large. The store’s owner did not recognize the robber from the cameras’ images.

ROAD RAGE

An angry driver punched and spat on another young driver when the two got in an argument over a turn. According to the victim of the attack, she made a right turn into the other motorist’s driving lane at Madison Avenue and East 59 Street around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The motorist was not happy with being cut off, and managed to get into a shouting match with the victim, though the exact details of the altercation were not given in the incident’s report. The cut-off motorist punched the 22-year-old driver while she was in her car, then spat on her and drove off. The victim was unable to give the driver’s physical details, but reported his license plate number to the police after the attack.

CELLPHONE SWIPE

A teenage girl lost her iPhone on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to an agile thief. The girl was walking around Third Avenue and East 95th Street and took out her phone to make a call at about 10:30 p.m., then all of a sudden a man ran by and snatched the device. The thief fled east on 95th Street then bounded up north along Third Avenue. The victim could not identify the man, though mentioned that he was around 20 years old and 5’5”.

Wedding Smashers
After leaving a wedding on East 60th Street on Sunday, Aug. 19, an inebriated guest became involved in an altercation with a passerby on the street. The wedding guest was on the losing end of the fight and ended up with lacerations on his face and a hematoma on his head. Police are still searching for the person that he got in the fight with.

Sneaky Right Hook
A man in his early thirties got in an argument with two females at 4:50 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 19, on the 1400 block of Second Avenue. While he was arguing with the females, their two male friends snuck up on him and punched him, causing swelling and a laceration on the right side of his face. The two males fled in a taxi but were pulled over at East 63rd Street and Second Avenue.

A Toast to Forget
A male in his fifties was sitting at an outdoor restaurant on the 1300 block of First Avenue enjoying his dinner on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 8, when a man at a different outside table threw a glass and hit him in the face. The perp fled the restaurant before the police arrived.

Clean Getaway
An unknown person cut the front gate of a dry cleaners on the 1700 block of Second Avenue on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The perp unlocked the front entrance and went inside, stealing a Dell laptop valued at $1,200 and a Panasonic phone. There were no working cameras on the premises.

By Amanda Woods

Following the recent report of a young woman who was stabbed in broad daylight on East 86th Street near Second Avenue, some Upper East Side residents and business owners are concerned that the ongoing subway construction makes the avenue more dangerous and prone to violent outbreaks.

Crime within the 19th Precinct, which covers the neighborhood, has climbed 16.22 percent from this time last year and 7.72 percent over the past two years, according to the most recent CompStat report. But Nick Viest, president of the 19th Precinct Community Council, said that crime has actually decreased 40 percent on Second Avenue between 80th and 91st streets, compared to this time last year.

These stats don’t prevent concerns from pouring in. Viest noted that residents at 19th Precinct Community Council meetings have pointed out that the construction area could be a breeding ground for crime.

Those concerns carry over from the meeting room into the neighborhood’s streets. Some blame the scaffolding and fencing surrounding the construction—in some spots covered with green tarps—for tightening up and darkening the sidewalks, potentially hindering the police’s view of the goings-on along the Avenue.

“What do you see when you look outside?” asked Dimitrios Kontakos, the manager of Viand Coffee Shop on the corner of Second Avenue and 86th Street, whose storefront is completely hidden on one side by the construction’s fencing. “Can you see anything? They put a jail over here.”

Kontakos suggested that some of the scaffolding and fencing should be removed at night, when construction is not going on, because a wide-open view of the sidewalk may deter criminals. “Thugs and thieves and criminals don’t like to be exposed,” he said.

The recent stabbing, which occurred in broad daylight, led Kontakos to worry about what could happen in the middle of the night when people are not around to help.

“This is the first time I’ve seen somebody at 10:30 in the morning outside of the store doing this,” Kontakos said. “Imagine if nobody was around and the store was closed. [The woman] wouldn’t be alive.”

Frank Giambanco, owner of Midnight Blue, an Italian restaurant on Second Avenue between 85th and 86th streets, shares the same concerns.

“It’s pretty dark here because of the closure,” Giambanco said. “It’s pretty unsafe for women.”

Vincent Naval, manager of Ivory Cleaners Too, between 84th and 85th streets on the Avenue, also thinks the construction is inviting for criminals.

“Two people can’t pass at the same time,” Naval said. “It’s easy for them to do these kinds of things,” he added, making a stabbing motion with his hand.

Saxs Sexigs, who has lived on the Upper East Side for over 30 years, said that although the subway construction isn’t completely to blame for crime in the area, it holds some of the responsibility.

“There wasn’t that high a crime rate before they started,” Sexigs said.  “These streets are so narrow and all these people have to walk on one side.”

Some residents are concerned that the Avenue is becoming a haven for the homeless, who camp out in enclosed areas on the street, shielded by scaffolding. Many of them don’t appear to be threatening, including one who calmly sits with his dog and a newspaper, Sexigs said. But Naval said that two or three homeless people sleep in front of his store every night, and he called the police on one of them a few months ago, a man who repeatedly cut his wrist and threatened passersby. Naval said he hasn’t seen the man since his call.

Bob, an Upper East Sider who declined to give his last name, said he doesn’t think the subway construction has any relationship to crime in the area, and that other factors are to blame.

“I think the neighborhood changed since they brought in Best Buy and bigger chain stores,” he said. “More people bring the crime element as well.”

Viest said that the significant decrease in crime along the stretch of the Avenue affected by the construction indicates that crime in the area is probably not related to the project.

Of greatest concern in the 19th Precinct is the increase in grand larcenies—property crimes, including iPhone thefts—which have climbed 22.4 percent in the precinct over the past year, Viest said.

“When those numbers move, that tends to be the most significant in affecting the overall crime,” Viest said. “It’s the largest number. We’ve seen an [increase], but it’s also the most difficult crime to police because it’s a crime of opportunity. There tend to be gangs and groups that coordinate and do these things.”

Police are urging locals not to hold their phones in public, but other than that, the crimes are hard to prevent, Viest said.

Julia Csiki, a waitress at André’s Cafe, located on Second Avenue between 84th and 85th streets, and Mary Charlotin, who also works in the area, said they feel relatively safe and have seen more police patrolling the area since the subway construction began.

But Anima Golder, a Second Avenue fruit stand operator, said that she doesn’t see the neighborhood, once known for its relative safety, the same way anymore.

“There’s more crime,” she said. “This area is bad now.”

Credit Card Fake-Out
A crafty credit card forger made a crucial error in judgment when he tried out his phony plastic in full view of a police officer. Last Thursday, the perp went into an Upper East Side electronics store and attempted to purchase a $400 iPhone. At the register, where an officer could see what was happening, the man tried to pay with a credit card that failed to process numerous times. A manager came over and confirmed the suspicions of the cashier—the card was fake. The perp then tried to leave the store, but was stopped by the police officer. He denied trying to use a credit card at all, but when he was searched, the officer found seven more fake credit cards on him. The 22-year-old was arrested on the spot for attempted grand larceny.

Sidewalk Bump and Steal
A woman was walking north on Lexington Avenue toward 60th Street last Thursday around 4:30 p.m. when she felt the swell of the crowd around her. She felt a bump from behind but didn’t attribute it to anything more than normal sidewalk jostle. When she walked into a nearby store, however, she noticed that her wallet was missing from her backpack. By the time she called her credit card companies to report the stolen cards, there had already been fraudulent activity on them. The victim lost several gift cards, a school ID and driver’s license and a flash drive along with the wallet, and has no idea who might have taken it. Police warn locals to be especially vigilant on the streets during crowded summer months and always keep belongings close.

Drugs on Wheels
Sometimes, a reckless cyclist poses a bigger public danger than meets the eye. Last Tuesday at about 10 p.m., police received reports of man riding his bike on the sidewalk, endangering passersby and weaving erratically for a six-block stretch along Fifth Avenue. When police officers stopped the man to question him, he granted them permission to search his backpack. There, the officers discovered 10 decks of heroin, four hypodermic needles, three large plastic containers of marijuana, 32 acetaminophen pills, three 800mg Neurontin pills, six Clonidine pills, three Remeron pills, five Lorazepam pills and nine ibuprofen pills (possibly to treat the back pain he must have been suffering as a result of carting all those illegal drugs on his back). The 26-year-old biker was arrested for criminal possession of controlled substances, leaving the sidewalks of the Upper East Side a little safer and the streets with a little less heroin.

Purse Snatch
A 33-year-old woman was taking a midnight stroll on the way to her East 90th Street home Tuesday morning when three women attacked her, knocking her to the ground in front of 303 E. 90th St. The three fled with the woman’s pink purse, containing her $220 iPhone, her New York State identification cards, credit cards from HSBC and Chase banks and an American Express card. None of the items were recovered.

Duane Reade Debacle
Pregnancy tests were only some of the items two men made off with when they robbed a Duane Reade store on Second Avenue on Sunday at 3 a.m. They made out with $10,747 worth of items from the store, also snatching cigarettes, Motrin, Aleve, Advil and condoms. Police are looking for a 5-foot-10 man who was wearing beige jeans and a black T-shirt at the time of the incident and a 5-foot-9 man who was wearing a green hat and blue jeans.

Taxi Attack
A taxi driver was dropping a passenger off on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 89th Street on Saturday at 1:15 p.m. when, out of nowhere, someone struck a blow to his face. Police describe the attacker as a black man with a small Afro who was driving a red hatchback car. The taxi driver suffered a small laceration on his mouth.

Punch and Run
A man who saw his girlfriend get punched in the face by another young woman was probably not expecting the catfight he was witnessing to turn into a physical assault. The couple confronted a 24-year-old woman in an adjacent apartment with a noise complaint in the East 83rd Street residential building Sunday, according to the police report. The verbal dispute escalated to an unexpected assault when the perpetrator proceeded to hit the 33-year-old female victim across the face, resulting in a small gash on the victim’s forehead. The woman who threw the punch fled in an unknown direction. The victim required medical attention when police arrived on the scene.

Thief in Disguise
A robber who impersonated an electric utility worker to enter an apartment Sunday morning stole a lock off a storage trunk—but nothing from inside the trunk. According to the police report, the perpetrator entered the apartment of an 80-year-old woman who does not speak English under the guise of checking the volt meters in her East 83rd Street residence. The fake electrician broke the lock—described by police as an antique Asian lock valued at $50—and stole it, damaging the trunk but leaving its contents undisturbed. There was no description of the perpetrator in the police report and the stolen property has not been recovered.

Apartment Robbery
When a 21-year-old woman answered a knock on her door to two unfamiliar men, it became immediately apparent that they were there to rob her. “Give me the money, this is a stickup,” one of the perpetrators informed her. The men pushed their way into her East 65th Street apartment Monday, using weapons to subdue the victim when she fought back, according to the police report. One of the perpetrators struck the victim on her forehead with a gun, while the other stabbed her with a box cutter, inflicting wounds on her forearm and upper thigh. The men, who wore jeans and baseball caps, fled on foot, taking only a Blackberry cell phone. The victim hailed a cab to the hospital to seek treatment.

Unclean Getaway

Around 3 p.m. on a recent Sunday, a store clerk at a Financial District department store observed a man shoplifting on the premises. The 57-year-old clerk pursued the man, who reacted to the chase by spraying the clerk in the eyes with an unknown substance. The thief then dropped the bag containing the stolen loot, which turned out to be just $15 worth of soap. The clerk returned the soap to the store unharmed, but the perpetrator got away. There were no other witnesses to the messy encounter.

Lock-Down

A 29-year-old woman was working out at a Wall Street gym when several items were stolen from her unsecured locker. She reportedly left the items in the locker even though her lock was broken. The robber made off with the woman’s purse, containing an iPhone, a driver’s license, several credit cards and some jewelry.

Making a Drive for the Border

A Canadian visitor to New York City is temporarily stranded here after his rental car was stolen from its Tribeca parking spot on Sunday, May 6^th, in the early evening. Inside the stolen vehicle was a cell phone, money, a purse, a GPS, some CDs and a Canadian passport.

Calling the Fashion Police

A 25-year-old woman reported her wallet was stolen from her purse in Lower Manhattan while she was recently en route to the PATH train. The woman’s credit card records revealed a $720 purchase by the brand-savvy thief at Abercrombie & Fitch before she managed to cancel the card. Also missing were her driver’s license, a train ticket and some cash.

Caffeine Fiasco

A 55-year-old man was waiting in line at a major coffee shop chain for his morning caffeine fix, when he noticed his laptop was missing from his bag. While in the shop he reported his bag never left his person. The laptop was never recovered from the incredibly sneaky thief.

Too Hungry to Notice

A 38-year-old woman was eating at a popular lunch chain mid-afternoon on a Tuesday in the Financial District when she noticed her purse had been stolen from where she set it behind her chair. The stealthy thief made off with her iPhone, wallet, passport, credit cards and house keys.

Phoning It In

A 17-year-old boy was arrested mid-day in Soho after grabbing an iPhone from the hands of a 49-year-old woman, who was in the process of texting. A witness apprehended the thief, who produced a pocket knife with the blade exposed. The perpetrator was arrested by officers who discovered a stolen Blackberry in his possession as well. Other evidence collected included multiple cell phone chargers, two iPods, an iPod touch, two additional cell phones and a Bluetooth.

In another “i” theft, On a Monday in Tribeca, a 63-year-old man’s company iPhone was grabbed by a young man who proceeded to run off the train they both occupied. The phone’s Find My iPhone application returned no results, and the victim decided not to pursue the matter.

A young man was enjoying himself at a night club in Soho on a Friday at 2 a.m. when he noticed his iPhone had been stolen out of his back pocket. He searched the club for the burglar to no avail, but his phone’s tracking system revealed a signal in the Bronx.

One Costly Dinner

A 31-year-old man parked his car on the street in Soho and went to dinner on a Saturday, only to return at 2 a.m. and find a window smashed and a backpack missing. The backpack contained $1,670 in cash and other various items including some a charger, a calculator and some sunglasses.

An Ambitious Thief

A woman was partying Thursday night at a Soho night club when she reached in her purse to discover various items missing, including cash, credit cards, an iPhone and makeup. Her American Express account called her to approve a $4,000 transaction which she denied. The 26-year-old woman claimed she was distracted by friends at the time of the theft.

TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE

Police say a Florida woman left her purse unattended as she tried on shoes at the Crocs Store on Spring Street. An opportunistic thief reached in and stole her wallet, which contained not only credit cards but her Social Security card.

BIKE CRAZE

A man’s Yamaha recently went missing in Soho, and this past week it looks like cycling thefts are continuing. A red 2008 Honda CBE was stolen outside of Charlton Street. When the owner returned to where he parked, the bike had vanished. The $6,500 two-wheeler was not chained up or locked when it was taken. Police on the scene searched the neighborhood for the motorcycle, but it was nowhere to be found.

DIRTY DANCING

While dancing at a downtown nightclub with her friends, a 21-year-old woman had a thief reach into the purse slung over her shoulder to steal her Samsung Galaxy III phone. The pickpocket also stole her credit and debit cards. While no charges were made on the credit cards, the crook withdrew $2,100 from her bank account.

A Queens woman also thought her wallet was safe in a friend’s purse as she partied in a nearby nightclub. When the party ended in the wee hours of the morning, she discovered someone had managed to slip her wallet out of her friend’s bag. The thief made several charges on her Bank of America card which were quickly canceled.

BROKEN WINDOW

A Pennsylvania man in New York visiting friends had his 2008 Range Rover broken into while it was parked on Mercer Street. The early-morning burglars smashed his rear window and stole a Dell XPS laptop valued at $3,000. A $1,200 Nikon camera and a $1,000 Louis Vuitton bag were also taken out of the back seat.

TRUE THEFT

On a recent night, six thieves wearing baseball caps went into a Soho clothing store while another two served as lookouts. The men stuffed thousands of dollars of denim into shopping bags before they quickly fled. Among the items stolen were 32 pairs of jeans, four jean jackets and nine pairs of shorts for a thread count of $10,851.

JEWELRY STORE SACKED

A display window at a Soho jewelry store was robbed during business hours. The clerk went to remove the items at the end of the day when she discovered that someone had stolen a collection of four rings and a bracelet. The high-priced adornments, made from a variety of exotic stones such as Peruvian calcite and labradorite, were valued at $4,995 in total. While the store has security cameras, the display window was located in a blind spot, allowing to crook to make off without a trace.

AN EVENING STROLL

As she took a nighttime stroll down Broadway, a Singapore woman felt something in her purse move. When she looked down, her purse had been opened and her yellow Kate Spade wallet was missing. The wallet contained credit and debit cards, $400 in assorted currency, and her Singapore ID.

Spread ’Em

Cops aren’t the only ones who will tell you to place your hands on a car—criminals will tell you to do so if they want to make off with your stuff and keep from being seen. On Monday, March 19, near First Avenue and 74th Street at 9 p.m., a man was pushed against a car by some crooks who demanded he empty the contents of his pockets, which happened to be the ever-valuable iPhone 4s with a case and a set of headphones. Two men have been arrested for the crime.

Dancing in the Dark

Going out to a nightclub on a Saturday night is usually an act that can be characterized by dancing and drinking. Unfortunately for one woman on the Upper East Side, the last part of this equation was complicated by robbery. The victim was walking home at about 5 a.m. on Sunday when a thief ran up to her from behind and snatched her purse. She lost credit and bank cards, a wallet, cell phone and a Louis Vuitton bag. So far, there have been no arrests.

Phone Lover Fights

It’s no surprise that iPhones have become the newest target for street thieves. Despite the multitude of GPS trackers and apps that work to prevent phones from being stolen, they are still a hot item on the street. On Friday night on Second Avenue, a woman was talking
on her phone, oblivious to the group of men that were meandering her way. One of the lowbrow crooks tried to take her phone by punching her in the face and running, but the victim would have none of it. After being hit hard, the woman employed a vice-like grip to retain her phone. The perp, seeing that this woman was taking his punches with ease, decided that he and his friends should split before their own phones were stolen. So far, no arrests have been made.

Beer Can Battles

Bar fights are never a fun occurrence. The atmosphere of the night is destroyed, people yell and scream and someone always ends up with a bloody nose—or worse. One Upper East Side man was stricken with just a scenario—as well as a beer can to the face—last Saturday night. After drinking at a pub on Second Avenue, the victim got into an altercation with a young man and was beaned in the face. The attacker tried to flee the scene but was later apprehended. He is being charged with assault.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Mama always said: If you do not have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. A man who was shopping at a chain store in the Upper East Side learned this lesson the hard way. On Saturday, March 17, the man enraged the female clerk behind the counter by “being disrespectful.” The argument ended with her smashing a glass bottle upon his skull. Realizing that a felonious assault was probably not the best way to teach someone to respect women, she fled her place of business and has not been seen since.

Midnight Snacking

Locking your door is a safe way to keep intruders out of a place of business, but having a lock will not do much if the door is made of glass and there is no video surveillance in place. On Tuesday March 13, an employee of a restaurant on First Avenue went into work to open up for the day only to find that a midnight visitor had already opened the door for
him. The burglar made his way into the restaurant and proceeded to make off with several knives and a laptop. So far, there have been no arrests in the case.

Vicious Attack
Last Friday morning, a 41-year-old man was arrested for violently assaulting his girlfriend as she was leaving for work with her daughter. The victim was exiting her apartment when the boyfriend appeared and shouted, “Give me money,” shoving her inside. He then strangled her, knocked her to the floor, punched her in the face and head and kicked her, all just to grab her purse, which didn’t contain any money. The perp tried to access the victim’s bank accounts at three different ATM locations in the area, before giving up and returning to the scene of his crime to fling the purse at the victim’s mother, who was there to help her injured daughter.

Bar Sneak
In the wee hours last Monday morning, a patron of the bar Jake’s Dilemma noticed another fellow kindly picking up coats and purses that had fallen on the floor and placing them back on chairs and tables. Upon closer look, however, the vigilant observer saw that the man was in fact picking the pockets of the items he was moving, and the man confronted the perp after two ladies confirmed that their wallets were missing. The thief shoved his accuser out into the street in plain sight of a police officer, who arrested him after finding three Metrocards he had tossed on the floor and a pink wallet in his front pocket that did not belong to him. The rest of the wallets were found emptied in the men’s bathroom.

Grab and Go
Also early last Monday, just a few minutes before closing time, a man sidled up to the bar at a Columbus Avenue joint and opened his wallet to pay for a bottle of water. In the blink of an eye, another man appeared, snatched $540 in cash and a $700 bracelet from the thirsty guy and fled the scene.

Bank Skimmer Strikes
A 76-year-old woman reported a bank scam to the police last week. She discovered when she checked her accounts online that some unknown, unauthorized person had transferred $40,000 from her home equity account to her checking account and then written a check for $9,600 out to Reliance Financial, which was cashed and cleared.

A Lesson in Security
No one deserves to get ripped off, but some people make themselves easy targets. A woman reported to police last week that her TD Bank card and her driver’s license had been stolen and that someone had withdrawn $2,957.90 from her accounts between Feb. 13 and 16. When the police officer interviewing her asked how the perp could have gotten her PIN number, the woman admitted that she had written it right on her debit card.