Two men and a woman are being sought by the NYPD on suspicion of having robbed a warehouse in Lower Manhattan, stealing merchandise, destroying some of the furniture and even throwing a computer monitor at the head of a worker.
The male duo broke into the store on John Street near Broadway around : 25 pm on 16 February, accompanied by a woman who stayed near the door, according to a video released yesterday by the NYPD .
The men demanded merchandise from a worker of 28 years and he refused to pay it, police said. They then began pushing and throwing items on the counter, including two display cases. Before fleeing, one of them grabbed a computer monitor and threw it at the worker’s head, the video shows.
They took around eight packs of cigarettes valued at $120 dollars before fleeing on foot, heading east on John Street. The worker was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in stable condition, police said.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Attacks on warehouses in New York are common, both on employees and customers. Earlier in 2022, a woman and her pit bull dog were killed in a shooting inside a Brooklyn grocery store.
At the end of November a young man from 18 years later he died after being shot several times, being a customer of a winery in Staten Island (NYC). And in October, an immigrant store clerk was stabbed to death in East Harlem in an apparent argument over 50 pennies. in the price of a cigarette.