Armed Trio Steal Cash, Cards And Sweater In Slew Of Brooklyn Hold-Ups, Police Say

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Police are hunting for three armed men who have been robbing people of cash, cellphones and sweaters across Brooklyn.

The three suspects first struck on St. Marks and Albany avenues in Crown Heights, where they forced a 15-year-old boy to hand over his sweater and cellphone around 3:25 a.m. on Tuesday May 30, police said.

Two days later, the trio surrounded a 23-year-old man inside St. John’s Recreation Center on Schenectady and Troy avenues around 5:30 p.m. and ran away with their victim’s cellphone, said police.

The gang next went on a robbery spree on June 10, when they held up six people in three separate heists.

Two robbers pointed their gun at three teenaged boys on the corner of Roebling and North 10th streets around 12:30 a.m. and ran off with their cellphones, debit cards and about $110 in cash, police said.

At 2 a.m., an armed duo robbed a 24-year-old man of his cellphone and $200 in cash outside 60 North First St., then drove away in a silver sedan, said police.

The pair then arrived in Prospect Heights around 2:40 a.m. where they robbed two 25-year-olds — a man and woman — of two credit cards and $25 near Classon Avenue and Dean street, police said.

The trio used the stolen credit cards to buy food at the McDonald’s at 840 Atlantic Ave. and $22 in merchandise from the Genuine Deli at 700 Fulton St. later that day, police said.

Police released surveillance photos of the suspects and describe them as men in their late teens or early twenties, two of whom sport hoodies.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

Photos courtesy of the NYPD.