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Crew Gets Away With $115K in Duane Reade Heist, Police Say

By Gustavo Solis | September 8, 2015 2:18pm
 The bandits took $115,000 from this machine at the Duane Reade on 115th Street and Third Avenue.
The bandits took $115,000 from this machine at the Duane Reade on 115th Street and Third Avenue.
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EAST HARLEM — A crew of bandits drilled through the wall of a Duane Reade, cracked an ATM and made off with $115,000 over the weekend.

The thieves cut a hole through a sheet rock wall in an empty building next door to get into the pharmacy at 2108 Third Ave. about 5 a.m. Saturday, according to the NYPD.

Once inside they took the cash from an ATM machine, police said.

Investigators believe more than one person participated in the heist but the exact number was not immediately available.

Duane Reade employees noticed the damage when they opened the store at 115th Street and Third Avenue about 7:45 a.m, police said. They declined to talk about the robbery.