MANHATTAN — A group of men have been involved in at least seven gunpoint robberies throughout the city in April hitting pharmacies and liquor stores, according to the NYPD.
The spree started when three of the men made off with Oxycodone, Percocet and $400 after threatening workers with a black firearm inside the Fordham Family Pharmacy at 202 West Fordham Road on April 4, according to the NYPD.
They struck two more times on April 14, first pulling a gun on a 29-year-old worker at Cohen’s Fashion Optical on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, police said. They took $1,500 in cash and 15 pairs of designer glasses worth about $6,000.
They then made their way to Brooklyn where they pulled a gun on a worker at Windsor Wine Merchants on Prospect Park West and made off with $1,450 in cash, police said.
On April 16, two of the men, who were both wearing masks, held up the MBA wireless store in Manhattan on Second Avenue near 62nd Street and took $250.
Then several hours later at about 7:45 p.m. the same two men pulled a gun on a worker at the Cure Pharmacy on Third Avenue near 61st Street, police said.
While one of the robbers demanded money from the worker the other man went to the rear of the store, pulled out another gun and demanded all the “oxy” from workers in pharmacy.
“Do you think I’m playing?” he said while the workers tried to get him the drugs and then he fired a round into the rear wall.
None of the workers were hit and the men left with Oxycodone pills and $300 in cash.
On April 24 two of the men again robbed a pharmacy, this time in Brooklyn at Broadway and Willoughby Avenue, according to the NYPD. They unsuccessfully tried to get into the store’s safe and then left with $100 from the register.
Then later in the day they made their way back to Manhattan and pulled a gun on a 26-year-old worker at East 87 Wine Traders on Second Avenue and 88th Street. They made off with $549 from the register.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. You can also submit tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or texting tips to 274637(CRIMES), then entering TIP577.
