Upper East Side & Roosevelt Island

Crime & Mayhem

Sunglasses-Wearing Bandit Robs Upper East Side Bodega, Cops Say

August 8, 2013 9:48pm | Updated August 8, 2013 9:48pm
The man robbed OK Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Market, cops said.
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NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE — He wore his sunglasses at night — while robbing a bodega.

A man in shades and a baseball cap, pretending to carry a gun robbed the OK Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Market at 1291 Madison Ave. in the wee hours of Thursday morning, cops said.

The clerk gave him an unknown amount of cash and he fled, cops said.

The man has a scar on the right side of his face and tattoos on his arms, police said.

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