Police are asking for the public\u2019s help finding a man they say is behind a series of robberies across New York City, including two in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Investigators have identified the man as 33-year-old Gustavo DeJesus Torres.<\/p>\n
Police say the incidents happened over several days in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.<\/p>\n
The most recent incident happened at a Chase Bank on Tuesday in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
In each case, investigators say Torres walked into a business and handed a note demanding money.<\/p>\n
Two of those incidents happened in Brooklyn on March 14.<\/p>\n
Police say he first went into a location on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn around 11:20 a.m., but did not get any money.<\/p>\n
Less than an hour later, investigators say he went to a bank on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush, where he got away with about $265.<\/p>\n
Police say Torres is also linked to four other incidents across the city. In some cases, he got cash \u2014 including as little as $20 \u2014 and in others, he left empty-handed.<\/p>\n
No one was hurt in any of the robberies.<\/p>\n
Officials say all the robberies happened during the daytime. Yvette Richardson says it’s unsettling.<\/p>\n
“I think that crooks are getting more and more brazen,” said Richardson.<\/p>\n
News 12 crews saw a detective walking out of the Chase Bank on Fulton Street Wednesday evening, as well as security inside. <\/p>\n
Surveillance images released by police show Torres inside locations and also entering a subway station.<\/p>\n
Anyone who recognizes him or has information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help finding a man they say is behind a series of robberies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-171357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171357","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=171357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}