Crime & Safety

Trio Charged With Robbing Taxi Driver At Gunpoint: PD

Two men and a teenage girl robbed the taxi driver earlier this week, police say.

BRENTWOOD, NY - Two men and a teenage girl were arrested for robbing a taxi driver at gunpoint in Brentwood earlier this week, according to Suffolk Police.

The robbery was reported on Monday at 2 a.m. on Park Avenue, police said.

A 20-year-old Bay Shore man, a 20-year-old Brentwood man, and a 16-year-old Brentwood female displayed what appeared to be a handgun and demanding cash from a taxi driver, police said.

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The trio then made off with $100 in cash and were apprehended by police a short time later, police said.

All three were charged with first degree robbery.

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