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Cops Searching for Gas Station and Dunkin' Donuts Robber

By  Julie  Shapiro and Alan Neuhauser | May 21, 2012 8:17pm 

QUEENS — Police are looking for a man who allegedly held up a Hollis Dunkin' Donuts and Floral Park gas station a gunpoint.

On May 18, the suspect, carrying a handgun, walked into the Dunkin' Donuts at 202-09 Hillside Ave. at about 11:30 p.m. police said. He grabbed an unknown money and then fled, police said.

Three days later, at 4:20 p.m., the same man, again carrying a gun, allegedly entered the gas station at 262-12 Hillside Ave. and grabbed an unkown amount of cash.

Police said the suspect was in his 30s. He was shown in a surveillance footage photo wearing a light-colored sweatshirt and a dark cap.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS, log onto www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637(CRIMES) and enter TIP577.

Police are looking for a man who held up the Dunkin' Donuts at 202-09 Hillside Ave. May 18, 2012.
Police are looking for a man who held up the Dunkin' Donuts at 202-09 Hillside Ave. May 18, 2012.
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