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Man Threatens Village Chicken Joint Customers With Air Gun, Prosecutors Say

 A man used an air pistol to threaten a woman who spurned his advances at Sticky's Finger Joint on Eighth Street, police said.
A man used an air pistol to threaten a woman who spurned his advances at Sticky's Finger Joint on Eighth Street, police said.
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DNAinfo/Danielle Tcholakian

GREENWICH VILLAGE — A man hitting on a woman in Sticky's Finger Joint on Eighth Street threatened her friends with an air pistol when they intervened, police said.

Police said the 23-year-old man was making "unwanted comments" to a woman inside the chicken finger specialty shop at 31 West Eighth St. about 8:30 p.m. on July 26.

When the woman's friends came to her aid, the man pulled something that appeared to be a gun out of his backpack and threatened them with it, police said.

According to court documents, the woman and her six friends told police the man said, "I'm the boss and if you want a problem, we can get cracking."

The man "move[d] the slide of the firearm back" in a way that looked like he was loading it, court documents say.

One of the woman's friends told police he saw the man go into a nearby apartment building on West Eighth Street, according to the documents.

An NYPD detective with the 6th Precinct found an air pistol behind a radiator on the fifth floor of the apartment building, according to the court records. An officer fired the weapon in order to confirm that it was an air pistol, court records say.

The man was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and possessing or selling air pistols and rifles, according to the criminal complaint.

He was released by a judge without bail, court records show. He is due back in court Sept. 24. His lawyer did not return a call for comment.

A Sticky's employee who was not working at the time of the incident declined to comment and a message left for a manager or the employee who was on duty July 26 was not returned.