CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a man who robbed a Crown Heights deli at gunpoint Friday and his accomplice who wore a marijuana-emblazoned sweatshirt reading “addicted” during the hold-up, surveillance footage shows.
The two thieves walked into the deli at 261 Buffalo Ave. on the corner of St. Johns Place around 1:15 a.m., police said. The pair then pulled a silver handgun on a 26-year-old worker at the bodega and demanded cash.
The worker gave the robbers an undetermined amount of money and the men fled on foot out of the store, according to police.
The NYPD released an image taken from surveillance footage during the robbery showing the suspects. One of the men, wearing a dark jacket, hood and sneakers, is pointing a handgun at the deli counter. The other man stands nearby wearing black pants and the red sweatshirt decorated with a marijuana leaf and the word “addicted,” styled to look like the Adidas sportswear logo.
Robberies have been down overall in the 77th Precinct, where Friday’s stick-up took place. Through May 15 of this year, 82 robberies have been reported in the area, down 12.8 percent from the 94 robberies reported in the same period in 2015, according to the most recently available NYPD data.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS or for Spanish (888) 57-PISTA (74782).