Crime & Safety
Man Steals $5K In Lottery Tickets From Crown Heights Bodega: Cops
The New York Avenue heist might be worth a whole lot more.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — One man has a good chance of getting the winning ticket this holiday season.
Cops are looking for a man who stole $5,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a bodega in Crown Heights earlier this month. The man took his share of the scratch-offs after breaking into Al Muath Grocery on New York Avenue just before 5 a.m. on Dec. 11, police said.
He was caught on surveillance camera at the store, which police released this week.
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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 Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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