Police are asking for the public\u2019s help after a robbery at a smoke shop in Cypress Hills.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the crime happened late at night on Feb. 10 inside a shop at 2945 Fulton St.<\/p>\n
According to police, a man walked into the store around 11:35 p.m. and pulled out a gun.<\/p>\n
Police say the man demanded money from the cash register. A 25-year-old worker handed over the cash, and the man ran out of the store.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the man then ran into the Fulton Avenue\u2013Cleveland Street subway station at the end of the block.<\/p>\n
The worker was not hurt, police said. Authorities have not said how much money was taken.<\/p>\n
News 12 spoke with a worker inside the shop Tuesday morning. He confirmed he was the employee who handed over the cash during the robbery. The worker said the store has since installed a buzz-in door and bulletproof glass for added security.<\/p>\n
Police have released photos of the person they are trying to find. In the images, the individual is seen wearing a white-and-black hooded jacket, a black face mask, black gloves and black sneakers.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. Police say all tips are confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help after a robbery at a smoke shop in Cypress Hills. Investigators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,16977,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":["post-159000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cypress-hills","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}