The suspect in a daring armed ATM heist at Brooklyn’s Long Island University campus was arrested yesterday – with $4,000 of the stolen loot in his pockets, police said.
Damian Mackie, 25, was picked up at around 12:30 p.m. on the corner of Saint Edward Street and Myrtle Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, a block from his home at 152 N. Elliott Walk, cops said.
Mackie, who has a history of robbery and assault arrests dating back to 1997, gave up peaceably when cops approached him.
Police say Mackie ambushed two armored-car guards at around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday as the guards tried to refill an ATM in the lobby of the university’s Metcalfe Building at 1 University Plaza.
That’s when Mackie – who is charged with one federal count of bank robbery – aimed a .45-caliber pistol at one of the guards and took his gun, cops said.
He then did the same to the guard’s colleague, who had the key to the ATM and a bag of money.
In all, Mackie made off with $74,000 and two handguns, cops said.
It was unclear where the remaining $70,000 was.