By Nina Mandell
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Police are looking for three men in connection to a borough-wide cell phone store robbery spree.
The suspects hit three stores on Tuesday — in Chelsea, Midtown and SoHo — and have robbed up to 16 T-Mobile and AT&T stores from Washington Heights to the Lower East Side, and Queens. They robbed some places twice, police said.
During the robberies, the suspects have flashed a knife or used physical force, but no injuries have been reported, police said. Most of the robberies have taken place between 4 and 6:30 p.m., police said, which are high-traffic times for the stores.
The three suspects have hot stores across Manhattan. The most recent robbery occurred Tuesday, when the crew hit an AT&T store in SoHo at 532 Broadway.
In the first incident, back in December, they hit a T-Mobile store at 869 Eighth Ave. in Midtown. Then, in January, they moved to Washington Heights, allegedly robbing an AT&T store at 2066 Broadway.
In February, they robbed an AT&T store on the Lower East Side at 144 Delancey St., police said. Since Feb. 13, the men allegedly hit two stores on Sixth Avenue in the Flatiron District, then went up to Midtown for robberies on Eighth Avenue and Madison Avenue. At the end of the month, they robbed a store on Canal Street in Chinatown.
This week, they hit a store on 253 Eighth Ave. in Chelsea, 350 Park Ave. in Midtown, and 532 Broadway in SoHo.
The suspects are described a black males between 19 and 25 years old. Two of the men are between 5 foot 8 and 5 foot 10 and the third suspect is described between 6 feet and 6 foot 2. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
