Crime & Safety

Bergen Man Robbed Of $148K In Jewelry In NYC Tuesday: Police

The man was mugged after he left a Queens gentlemen's club early Tuesday morning, police said.

A Bergen County man was robbed of $148,000 worth of jewelry as he left a Queens gentlemen's club early Tuesday morning, police confirmed.

The Edgewater man, whom police would not identify, was leaving the Starlet's Gentlemen's Club at about 3:45 a.m. when five muggers approached him while he was walking to his car at the Bronx Queen Expressway Service Road and 25th Avenue in Woodside, New York City Police said.

One of the muggers pulled out a silver handgun and demanded the man's $140,000 Richard Mille watch, $8,000 platinum necklace, and iPhone 7, police said.

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Police are investigated the mugging.


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