NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An off-duty correction officer was robbed at gunpoint inside a public housing building Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn, authorities said.
According to officials, at around noon, the 39-year-old officer was walking in a staircase at the Langston Hughes houses located on Sutter Avenue in Brownsville, when three suspects approached him.
At least one of the suspects pulled a gun and held the man up and robbed him, police said.
The thieves took $1,000 in cash, two bracelets, a Rolex watch and the victim's gun, police said.
There were no injuries reported, cops said.
No arrests made and an investigation is ongoing.
