Crime & Safety
'Iron Man' Robs Dunkin Donuts in Washingtonville
Customers ran when the robber appeared brandishing a gun, then crowded into the store after it re-opened, according to news reports.
A man wearing an Iron Man mask and brandishing a handgun robbed the Dunkin Donuts in Washingtonville around lunchtime Wednesday, according to the Times Herald-Record.
He got away with about $1,100, the village police chief said.
The robber was thorough, asking the manager for money first and then walking to over the drive-in window operation and demanding that as well.
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No one was injured -- all the customers ran when the masked man appeared, the paper said. And when the store reopened, people filled it.
"This kind of thing never happens here," village resident Larry Basselini told reporter Richard J. Bayne. "This is small town USA."
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