A journalist, affiliated with the United Nations, was arrested Monday for multiple bank robberies in Manhattan, police said.
\nAbdullahi Shuaibu, 53, is accused of robbing or attempting to rob\u00a0at least four\u00a0banks in midtown since Feb. 27, 2017, police said. All of the incidents occured during the early afternoon, they added.
\nShuaibu, of Queens, works\u00a0as a freelancer for the Panapress News Agency with a beat on the UN, a law enforcement source said. Under Shuaibu’s\u00a0Linkedin profile, he’s described as a \u201ccommunications specialist\u201d for the UN.
\nAccording to police, between Feb. 27 and April 17, Shuaibu robbed two Midtown banks\u00a0and attempted to knock over two others before he was caught. The\u00a0robberies\u00a0occurred between\u00a02 and 3:30\u00a0p.m., and each time he would pass a note to the teller demanding money, authorities said.
\nIn\u00a0at least one of the cases, the note stated that he had a gun, but no firearm was displayed, police said.
\nThe tellers complied in two of the incidents, but it is unclear how much money Shuaibu stole in total, police said. If the tellers did not comply, Shuaibu would grab the note and flee.
\nThe banks he hit included two\u00a0Santander banks, a Bank of America and an HSBC bank, police said.
\nHe was charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
\nShuaibu was elected to the board of the\u00a0Dag Hammarskjold Scholarship Fund for Journalists\u00a0as the UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), according to a 2007\u00a0Panapress article.
\nIt’s not clear whether he’s still part of the board. The\u00a0scholarship fund did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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