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More than $20K of Electronics Robbed from Williamsburg Store, Police Say

By Serena Dai | July 28, 2015 5:26pm
 Wireless store Metro PCS, at 187 Havemeyer St., was robbed at gunpoint for more than $20,000 in cash and electronics on Sunday, police said.
Wireless store Metro PCS, at 187 Havemeyer St., was robbed at gunpoint for more than $20,000 in cash and electronics on Sunday, police said.
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SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG — Two men robbed a local wireless store at gunpoint for more than $20,000 worth of electronics and cash, including iPhones, Samsung smartphones and tablets, police said.

The men, both about 30 years old and wearing masks and bucket hats, went into Metro PCS at 187 Havemeyer St. at about 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 26, according to police and manager Christopher Deno.

One of them pushed what felt like a firearm against Deno and said "Get the f--k open the register, mother f--kers, before I shoot you,” police said.

The other man then started putting iPhones, Galaxy tablets, Samsung Galaxy smartphones, Kyocera phones, an iPad mini and the Polaroid Link phone into a heavy duty beige bag, according to police and Deno.

They also took more than $750 in cash from the register, police said.

The men then ran out of the store toward Boriquen Place, police said.

Deno said he was in the store by himself at the time and initially thought the masked men were there as a joke.

"I was so surprised," he said.

It wasn't the first time he'd heard of the store getting robbed, but Deno brushed off any fear of an armed robbery taking place in the business again.

"It's nothing new," he said.

No one has been arrested for the incident.