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'Give Me the Pizza,' Knife-Wielding Robbers Tell Domino's Deliveryman: NYPD

By Gwynne Hogan | February 9, 2017 10:19am
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EAST WILLIAMSBURG — Three men robbed a $24 pizza from an unsuspecting Domino's deliveryman who was waiting in his car for a customer to come fetch it, police said.

“Give me the pizza,” said a man who approached the car near the intersection of Bushwick Avenue and Devoe Street on on Feb. 2 at 3:50 p.m., accompanied by two others.

The 43-year-old driver asked the men to verify they were indeed the customer who'd ordered the pizza pie, at which point the second man, who was wearing a black mask, whipped out a knife, police said.

The Domino's employee surrendered the pie and the perpetrators fled on foot north on Bushwick Avenue and then west on McKibbin Street, police said.

While the Domino driver escaped the Feb. 2 robbery unscathed, Amin Al, 20, a manager at the 183 Graham Ave. franchise said his drivers get their pies stolen and are often physically attacked.

"One driver [was] new, [it was his] first day. Somebody hit him for pizza," Al said. "Only pizza! Come on, why you want to hit my driver for that."

They're used to getting fake orders that are just meant to entrap drivers even though they never bring more than $20 cash with them, he said.

No arrests been made as of Wednesday, police said.