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Video: Battery-Throwing Robbers Threaten To Blow Up Bushwick Pay-O-Matic
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Scott Heins
Published Jun 16, 2016
Modified Jun 16, 2016
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Two men tried to rob a check cashing business in Bushwick Tuesday afternoon, deploying batteries and an unknown liquid as weapons before threatening to blow it up.
According to the NYPD, the men entered a Pay-O-Matic at 1756 Bushwick Avenue shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday and passed the 43-year-old female attendant a note demanding money before spraying the liquid at her through a glass partition window. Moments later, one of the robbers began throwing batteries wrapped with tape at the window and threatened to set the Pay-O-Matic on fire and blow it up if the attendant refused to hand over cash.
The woman refused, and both men left the location empty-handed.
The NYPD is now searching for the two would-be robbers, the first of whom is described as a man, 25 to 30 years old, approximately 200 lbs, wearing dark colored clothing, a hardhat, and blue gloves. The second suspect is described as a 25 to 30-year-old man, 175 lbs, wearing a blue hooded sweater, white mask, and blue gloves. Video of the attempted robbery and battery attack has been released.
Anyone with information in regards 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 Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
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Scott Heins
Scott Heins is a freelance photo and video journalist based in New York City, and a frequent contributor to Gothamist + WNYC. His work often centers around labor rights, housing, and policing. In 2018-2019 he traveled to four states while covering a wave of public school teachers strikes, with work featured in The New York Times, The Intercept, Getty Images, Splinter, and Bloomberg Photos. Scott is a dues-paying member of the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project.
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