Brooklyn Man Charged In Violent Nassau Robberies: Police

Nassau police arrested a Brooklyn man on Wednesday and charged him for two armed robberies that happened in January.

According to police, on Jan. 3, Stephen Scott, 30, of Thomas S. Boyland Street, Brooklyn, and another man entered Jada's Luxury Beauty Supply, located at 488 Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont, at 6:18 p.m. The men approached a 37-year-old woman who was working there, police said, and one of them pulled pulled out a handgun and demanded money. The woman refused, and the men started to repeatedly punch her in the face and stomach, police said, and then they then fled the scene with cash.

Scott and the other man later entered Modern Vape and Convenience Store, located at 1141 North Broadway in Massapequa, around 9:20 p.m., police said. They approached the worker in the store, and again one of them pulled out a handgun, according to police. They demanded cash and lotto tickets and, after a brief struggle, police say the victim gave in to their demands. They then fled the scene with cash and scratch-off lotto tickets, police said.

Scott is charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of first-degree criminal use of a firearm. He was scheduled to be arraigned today in First District Court in Hempstead.

Photo courtesy Nassau County Police Department