Crime & Safety
Armed Man Attacks Customer Before Robbing Nassau Store
Police say the man put the customer in a headlock as he pointed a gun at the clerk.
Nassau police are searching for a robber who attacked a customer in a store in Valley Stream before demanding money from the cash register.
According to police, the unknown man entered the A & H Milk Mart at 126 Mill Road and immediately put a 58-year-old male customer in a headlock. The robber then pointed an object covered in a plastic bag, which was believed to be a gun, at the 39-year-old employee and demanded money. The clerk complied, and the robber then fled south on Mill Road in a late model silver Nissan Sentra.
The man was wearing a green shirt, black hat and had a stocking covering his face.
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Detectives ask anyone with information about this crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.
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