Drug dealer threatens man with butcher knife on Brooklyn subway: NYPD
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A drug dealer threatened a subway rider with a butcher knife when he refused to buy weed off him aboard a Brooklyn train Tuesday morning, police said.
The suspect tried to sell a 31-year-old man marijuana on the southbound N train in the 86th Street subway station just after 7 a.m., according to the NYPD.
When the man refused, the suspect asked him for the password to his cell phone and then showed him the large gray butcher knife in his backpack, police said.
The suspect, dressed in a white shirt and sporting dreadlocks, then fled the subway station, cops said. A preliminary report suggests the thief took off with the cell phone.
There have been no arrests.
The subway rider was not injured.
There have been 1,131 transit crimes reported this year, just eight fewer than at the same time in 2025, according to NYPD data.
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