Robber Hit Taxi Company Hours After Fort Greene Office Theft

BROOKLYN, N.Y.— The same man who robbed a Fort Greene office at gunpoint on Friday tried to hit up a taxi company in Gowanus just a few hours later, police said.

The man, caught in surveillance footage, entered the Taxi Leasing Company at 330 Butler Street just after 8 p.m. on Friday. He showed his silver gun and demanded property, but instead ran from the business down Butler Street without taking anything. No injuries were reported.

Just a few hours before, the same man went into Ken Marble Inc. on Flushing Avenue and robbed a 53-year-old woman inside, police said. The man pointed his silver revolver at the woman and demanded money just before 6 p.m.

He walked away with the woman's pocketbook, which had her iPhone 5 and $800 cash, before fleeing from the office. There were also no reported injuries in this incident.

The suspect is described as a black man, approximately 25-years-old, about six feet tall and was last seenwearing a black knit cap, a black waist length jacket, black faded jeans, black sneakers and a multi-colored scarf.

Anyone with information in regard 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 CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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