Brooklyn
Two crooks, one armed with a handgun, robbed a Mill Basin pharmacy of $4,000 worth of Oxycodone, police sources said Wednesday. The men burst into Mill Basin Pharmacy at 5829 Avenue T at about 10:25 a.m. Tuesday and made off with the pills and $150.
A 30-year-old man was shot dead in Crown Heights, cops said Wednesday. The victim was on St. Marks Avenue near Ralph Avenue at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when he was shot in the torso, according to police. EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Queens
Cops are looking for two men in connection with a series of burglaries in Flushing. The thieves entered a home at 161st Street and Horace Harding Expressway through the front door sometime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on June 14, and swiped a gaming system and a pair of sunglasses, cops said. Four days earlier, the two burst into a residence at 150th Street and Booth Memorial Avenue through a basement door and got away with an Apple MacBook, two iPads and an iPhone belonging to a 76-year-old man. On May 18 at 12:10 a.m., they entered a home at 157th Street and Horace Harding Expressway via a rear door and ransacked the place, police said.
Two suspects robbed a woman in Flushing and used her debit card to make purchases at nearby stores, authorities said Wednesday. The 38-year-old victim was at Main Street and 37th Avenue at about 4:15 a.m. Friday when the suspects came up from behind, knocked her to the ground and took her purse, officials said. The thieves made off with an Apple iPad, about $30 in cash and her debit card, police sources said. Later that morning, the suspects used the card at a McDonald’s on Stratton Street and then at an H-Mart supermarket on Union Street, investigators said. The suspects are believed to be in their 20s. One is thin and was wearing a white tank top and black and white sweat pants. The other is heavy-set and was wearing a white tank top and dark-colored pants.
The Bronx
A man and a woman ransacked a Woodstock home and stole the victim’s car, authorities said Wednesday. The two entered the building at Fox Street and Intervale Avenue through an open window on Aug. 9 and took a MetroCard, credit cards, $230, electronics and car keys, police said. The suspects then fled in the victim’s gray, compact SUV, cops said. On Aug. 11, the duo used the stolen MetroCard at the 110th Street subway station in East Harlem, cops said. The male suspect was described as Hispanic, between 18 and 25 years old and sporting long, black hair. He was wearing a white tank top, dark-colored shorts and white sneakers, police said. The woman was described as Hispanic, 20 to 30 years old with red hair, police said. She was wearing a light-colored shirt, light-colored shorts and slippers, and had a towel around her shoulders.
The two suspects pictured above put a teen in a chokehold and robbed him in the lobby of his Longwood apartment building, cops said Wednesday. They approached the 19-year-old victim in the building on Fox Street between 156th Street and Longwood Avenue at 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 10, police said. One put the victim in a chokehold while the other went through his pockets, stealing a debit card, iPhone and $10, cops said. One of the suspects is in his 20s or 30s and about 5-foot-8 with a slim build, police said. He was wearing a blue T-shirt, light blue jeans and dark Prada sneakers. The other is about the same age, around 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. He wore a red T-shirt, blue-jean shorts and dark-colored sneakers.
The suspect pictured above has broken into at least five banks in the Gramercy area and stolen cash, authorities said Wednesday. In each of the incidents, he entered during overnight hours and pried open teller drawers or safes, officials said. He stole a few hundred dollars from a drawer at an Investors Bank on Fifth Avenue on April 6. He struck at a Santander Bank on Seventh Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.