NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An armed robbery duo has held up 21 smoke shops and bodegas in three boroughs since late August, police said Sunday as they released photos of the crooks.
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They committed their first robbery on Aug. 17, around 9:35 p.m., at the Green Deli Mart and Grill on Patchen and Greene avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, pointing a gun at a 29-year-old worker and fleeing with around $500 cash.
Police said their most recent robbery was on Oct. 9 around 9:05 p.m., when one of them held up two workers at a store at 27-06 Queens Plaza South. That robbery came minutes after they targeted an Upper East Side shop at 1726 2nd Ave.
According to police, the pair targeted 14 Queens, five Brooklyn and two Manhattan stores and stole nearly $19,000 in cash, $3,800 in retail items and a cellphone from a display case.
None of the victims were injured in each incident.
Anyone with information in regard to these incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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