A stand-off between cops and robbers during an in-progress bank heist in Queens sounds just like a bad movie script:
“Drop your gun!” the cop commands the robber.
“No, you drop YOUR gun!” the robber screams back with defiant resolve.
But that exchange — described by police and eye-witnesses — really happened at 9 a.m. Saturday, after two armed men in green surgical scrubs and masks tried to hold up the Chase Bank on Union Turnpike near 178th Street Fresh Meadows, police said.
“It was very surreal,” a responding officer recalled.
The men in medical masks used zip-ties to bind the wrists of two of the bank’s four weekend workers.
But one of the employees still managed to trigger an alarm.
Less than a minute later, two officers who were patrolling nearby stormed into the bank, even as the two robbers were waving their weapons and demanding money, police said.
“We were instructing [one of the robbers] to drop the weapon,” Officer Harris Correa, 42, a veteran of 16 years, recalled later.
“And he stated to us, ‘You drop the guns,’” Correa said.
After a one- or two-minutes of mutual pistol-pointing, the robber finally dropped his weapon, Correa said. Cops recovered the .45 caliber weapon.
“It’s something you see in a movie,” said Officer Keith Gordon, the other of the two arriving cops.
Except for one thing:
“It was real,” said Gordon, who’s been on the force for one-and-a-half years.
“The adrenaline was very real,” he added.
One of the robbers, Quaimme Davies, 35, was charged with robbery and criminal possession of a defaced weapon. His 39-year-old accomplice has not yet been charged.
Lincoln Stevens, a mobile technician from Queens Village, had a front row seat to the Hollywood-style bust.
“I was coming and a cop car came from behind with its lights on,” Stevens, 26, said. “I parked and got out to watch. [The cops] go in the bank, then the bank manager and teller come out with [their] hands tied. Fifteen cop cars come. A couple of [the cops] went in with their guns out. They took the suspects out.”
He continued: “Before you realized what was happening, it was over.”
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano