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Mugger Who Pistol-Whipped Woman Arrested in Rego Park

By Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska | November 22, 2013 1:17pm
 Police said they arrested a man who committed two gunpoint robberies in the Forest Hills and Rego Park area.
Police said they arrested a man who committed two gunpoint robberies in the Forest Hills and Rego Park area.
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QUEENS — A man who committed two gunpoint robberies in the Forest Hills and Rego Park area, including one in which a woman was pistol-whipped, has been arrested, police officials said.

The robberies, police said, took place on Oct. 8 about an hour apart, said Capt. Thomas Conforti, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct.

The first incident occurred at 9 p.m. when two suspects approached a 32-year-old man in front of his home around 75th Avenue and 113th Street in Forest Hills. They threatened him with a gun, checked his pockets and stole his cellphone, police said. The victim said one of the attackers wore ripped blue jeans.

About an hour later, a 22-year-old woman was attacked near 63rd Road and 98th Place in Rego Park. Two men approached her and hit her in the face with a gun, causing laceration, police said. They stole her cell phone, purse, money and car keys, police said. The woman said one of the attackers wore a blue hooded sweatshirt.

Approximately a week later, Conforti said, around the same area at about the same time, police officers observed three man “acting suspiciously by a car that was parked at a fire hydrant.”

The officers, Conforti said, “thought they were about to rob someone so they initiated a car stop.”

During the car stop the officers “recovered a loaded 9mm semiautomatic firearm from the car," Conforti said,  "and one of the occupants was positively identified as being the person that committed those violent robberies a week prior.”

The man's name and other details about the arrest were not immediately available.