Bed-Stuy Robberies: Police Seeking 3 Suspects

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for three men in connection with two robberies of the same apartment in Bed-Stuy in two weeks, they said. The first incident occurred on Friday, Jan. 27 at around 5 p.m., when the two suspects pushed their way inside a 33-year-old woman's apartment on Throop Avenue and Hopkins Street, cops said. She had buzzed them into the main door, according to police. When they got inside, they punched her and knocked her down to the floor, cops said. One of the men took out a knife and demanded the woman's property; they escaped with $2,600 in cash and jewelry, police said.

The second incident occurred on Monday, Feb. 6 at around 2:40 a.m., cops said. One suspect, who knew the victim, opened her apartment door and let two other suspects in. Once inside the apartment, two of the suspects punched her and demanded her property. They ran away with $3,000 in cash, a credit card and her cell phone, police said. Later that morning they used her credit card to withdraw $300 from an ATM in Sam's Deli and Grocery on Central Avenue, according to the NYPD.

Police sources told the New York Daily News that the victim of the robberies was a prostitute, and one of the suspects was a client of hers.

Cops describe all three suspects as a Hispanic men, 20 to 30 years old. The first suspect was last seen wearing a dark baseball hat, a blue hooded sweater with a graphic on its chest, dark pants and red and black sneakers. The second suspect was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweater. The third suspect was just described as a "dark-skinned Hispanic man."

Anyone with information in regards 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 by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

The NYPD released a surveillance photo and video of one of the suspects.

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