Village Convenience Store Robbed Twice In A Week, Cops Say

WEST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN — A convenience store near the West Fourth Street station was robbed twice in one week earlier this month, according to police.

Police said in a press release Wednesday that just days before a man broke into the Grab & Go Grocery at 388 Avenue of the Americas on May 5, another man had stolen a safe from the store.

Cops found out the safe, which had $1,500 inside, was stolen after an employee found a front window of the store damaged on Saturday, May 2. They caught a masked man on surveillance video breaking into the store and taking the safe before heading down to the West Fourth Street station, police said.

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The burglary came only a few days before the May 5 incident, when another masked man broke into the Grab & Go store's locked front door and took more than $1,500-worth of products from the store. Police did not specify what types of merchandise he stole.

Anyone with information in regard to the identity of either male 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.