TIMES SQUARE — A man threatened to stab a Duane Reade employee with an AIDS-infected syringe after getting caught stealing nearly $600 worth of items from the drugstore last week, police said.
The employee, who was working at the shop on Broadway between West 49th and 50th streets around 9:10 p.m. on Dec. 7, told police he saw the man taking items off a shelf and putting them in a red bag, the NYPD said.
When the 28-year-old worker confronted the suspect, the man pulled a syringe out of his sweatshirt pocket and told the employee, “I’ll stab you, and you will get AIDS,” the employee told police.
The thief fled the store at 1627 Broadway with 12 Tylenol packs valued at $118, $154 worth of mucus-relief medication, seven Mucinex packets valued at $174, five containers of Axe body spray valued at $42, four containers of Axe Dark Temptation spray valued at $47, and five Axe Excite products valued at $59, police said.
The suspect ran northbound on Broadway with the items in his backpack and has not been caught, police said.
An employee working at the store on Tuesday declined to comment on the incident.
