NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- Two men were busted early Tuesday in connection with six overnight gunpoint robberies across three New York City boroughs.
The armed pair mugged people at random in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens over the span of just two hours—between about 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.—before they were caught in the Bronx, police said.
The duo fled each robbery in a white Toyota Sienna minivan with New York plates that crashed along the Major Deegan Expressway in the University Heights section as police closed in around 4 a.m.
The crashed minivan was spotted at Cedar Avenue and W. 179th Street by the NYPD Aviation Unit.
A 34-year-old man was taken into custody at the scene, and a firearm was recovered from the glovebox of the minivan, police said.
A 24-year-old man fled the area on foot but was apprehended in a courtyard about a block north on Sedgwick Avenue, according to police.
Neither of the men suffered serious injuries in the crash.
Charges against both of them were pending Tuesday as detectives investigate a “larger” spree that may be connected to one or both men, police said.
According to police, both suspects have long rap sheets and were out on parole. They were both arrested just two weeks ago on drug charges.
The first reported robbery was just before 1 a.m. at 104th Street and Alstyne Avenue in Corona, Queens, where someone was mugged of two cellphones and a necklace.
Minutes later, at 65th Street and Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens, someone was robbed of a wallet and a cellphone.
The pair struck again around 1:45 a.m. at N. 11th Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They robbed a victim of an unknown amount of cash, police said.
The crooks returned to Queens about 15 minutes later, where they robbed someone of credit cards and cash at Broadway and 72nd Street in Jackson Heights.
Just after 2:40 p.m. they turned up in Manhattan, where they mugged a food truck vendor in Greenwich Village, stealing the victim’s cash outside NYU’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square South.
The last robbery was just after 3 a.m. in Upper Manhattan, where someone was robbed of a bag at Seaman Avenue and W. 204th Street in Inwood.
Police said no injuries were reported in any of the holdups.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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