Michael Bellevue, 26, of Crown Heights, bought a black ski mask from a bodega, then returned to rob the place 20 minutes later. <\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man on Monday was sentenced to five years in prison for robbing a Crown Heights bodega where he was a regular customer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Bellevue, 26, of Crown Heights, was sentenced to prison followed by five years\u2019 post-release supervision, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On January 15, 2024, the defendant purchased multiple items, including a black ski mask, from a bodega at 401 Schenectady Ave.\u00a0in Crown Heights, where he was recognized by the victim as a regular, everyday customer. Roughly 20 minutes later, the defendant re-entered the bodega armed with a loaded black firearm and wearing the black ski mask, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pointed the firearm at the victim \u2014 the same bodega employee from whom he had purchased the ski mask \u2014 and demanded cash from the register, saying \u201cGive me the money or I\u2019m going to kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The defendant then pointed the firearm at the victim\u2019s head, but the victim was able to grab the firearm, which then discharged, prosecutors said. The victim dove out of the way, narrowly escaping being struck by a bullet. As the victim dove, the defendant reached over the counter, grabbed cash out of the open register, and fled.<\/p>\n
The defendant was apprehended on January 19, 2024, following an investigation, according to Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis brazen defendant not only robbed a business that had just provided him a service, but he also put a hard-working employee in grave danger,” Gonzalez said in a statement. “We have zero tolerance for gun crimes in Brooklyn, where shootings and homicides continue to reach record lows, and will continue to vigorously prosecute those who use firearms and threaten our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bellevue, 26, of Crown Heights, bought a black ski mask from a bodega, then returned to rob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[73802,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-183391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bodega-robberymichael-bellevue","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183391","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=183391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}