Pot Shop Workers Pepper Sprayed, Robbed

Surveillance Video of Crew Who Stole Mary Jane and Cash

Police are searching for a robbery crew that pepper sprays workers and robs smoke shops in Manhattan. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Manhattan Voice 

November 15, 2023


MANHATTAN - The NYPD is looking for a group of men who pepper showered employees and ransacked two smoke shops. Police delivered surveillance video of somewhere around five suspects in the robberies that occurred in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.



The main robbery occurred around 10:15 pm on November 1. Cops said a gathering of men strolled into the smoke shop on Madison Road and hit a 22-year-old worker in the face with pepper spray. The worker fell over subsequent to being hit in the face with the substance, as the men approached burglarizing the store.


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Cops said the crooks took $1,400 in cash and took a mobile phone from the store prior to escaping.


EMS moved the casualty to NY Downtown Emergency clinic for treatment for agony and irritation to the eyes.



Cops said a similar group struck days after the fact in Williamsbridge, Brooklyn. At around 10:45 pm on November 7, a 26-year-old male employee was working inside the Bogart Road smoke shop. Cops said the crew strolled in and pepper sprayed the worker in the face.


The group then, at that point, took $300 in cash and marijuana items from the store prior to escaping in an obscure heading.


EMS treated the casualty at the scene for torment and consuming of the eyes. The NYPD delivered the reconnaissance video with expectations of getting the group.



Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.


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