LOWER EAST SIDE — A robber swiped $340 from a local Rite Aid after threatening an employee, police said.
The 21-year-old employee was standing behind the register at the drugstore’s Grand Street location when a man came up to him and said, “Give me the money,” at 5:40 a.m. on June 7, according to the NYPD and store manager Billy Smith.
The robber then lifted up his shirt and displayed “an unknown brown object,” which Smith said looked like the handle of a gun, police said.
“He was acting like he was holding something in his waist…acting like he was gripping something,” Smith said.
The employee handed over $340 in cash, and the robber fled southbound on Clinton Street, according to the NYPD.
The suspect was about 5-foot-7, 160 pounds and has brown eyes, police said.
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