QUEENS — A two-man team of burglars who repeatedly robbed the same Flushing food court and recently stole $72,000 from a nearby store have struck in the neighborhood again, according to police.
The pair completed their seventh robbery in downtown Flushing when they stole $800 and an HP laptop from Jin Kitchen and Bath on 41st Avenue and Haight Street at 1:50 a.m. on Sept. 24, police said.
Video surveillance footage from inside Jin Kitchen and Bath shows two men who police believe have broken into two nearby business and burglarized the New York Food Court four times, according to the NYPD.
The two thieves first struck the food court on Roosevelt Avenue near College Point Boulevard on March 25 around 8:30 p.m. when they stole $5,000 from 16 Express Drug Store, police said.
The duo stole more than $12,300 from food court vendors during their four attacks on March 25, April 10, May 6 and June 13, according to police.
The food court bandits pulled off their biggest heist just after midnight on June 17 when they stole a safe that contained $72,000 in cash from Flushing Stone & Kitchen Depot on 41st Avenue and Fuller Place, police said.
Surveillance footage captured the two suspects wheeling the safe away in a shopping cart, said police.
The burglars also broke into Waland Tradiing Corp on College Point Boulevard on May 17, but nothing was taken, according to police.
Police said the suspects have not yet been identified and the investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
