Crime & Safety
Video: Dog Snatched From Outside Williamsburg Supermarket
A 21-year-old woman left her terrier on a leash when she went into the grocery store and when she got out, the dog was gone, police said.
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for two men that snatched a terrier that was left outside a supermarket on his leash.
The terrier mix was left outside a grocery store on the corner of Humboldt Street and Flushing Avenue by his 21-year-old owner around 9 p.m. on Monday, police said. But when the owner got back, the dog was gone and just the leash was left outside the store.
Police later found out that two men who had been walking by the store took the dog and ran away.
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Video shows one of the men scooping up the dog by the collar as he walks by.
Both of the men were caught on surveillance camera.
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Anyone with information in regard to the identity of the males 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 CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @ NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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