Crime & Safety

Brentwood Brothers Charged In Connection To Gunpoint Robbery: PD

The brothers and their getaway driver were arrested on Thursday for a brutal robbery at a Long Island tire shop, police said.

KINGS PARK, NY - Two Brentwood brothers and a Bay Shore man were arrested in connection to a gunpoint robbery at a Kings Park business on Thursday, according to Suffolk Police.

At 11:10 a.m. Keyon and Kristian Miller entered Kev’s Tire Shop on Renwick Avenue, police said. After entering Keyon, 21, began physically attacking an employee, police said. Then Kristian, 19, pointed a black handgun demanding money and threatened to shoot the employee, police said.

The employee handed the brothers the cash and they fled the scene in a 2014 Toyota Camry being driven by Bunice Knight III, police said. The employee was not injured.

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A notification was broadcasted and a Smithtown Fire Marshall found the car. Police stopped the car on Vanderbilt Motor Parkway and Commack Road in Commack, police said. The car was impounded as evidence.

Keyon, Kristian, and Knight were arrested and charged with first degree robbery. They were held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on December 20.

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