{"id":216230,"date":"2026-05-01T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:51:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-businesses-targeted-in-knifepoint-robbery-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216230\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Businesses Targeted In Knifepoint Robbery Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities are searching for the man they say is responsible for a knifepoint robbery spree targeting businesses in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the man stuck to a plan &#8211; demanding money before going behind the counter and holding an employee at knifepoint. The incidents happened in mid-April. The largest amount stolen was around $6,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to authorities, the man first struck a smoke shop in Williamsburg. He walked into 325 Graham Ave. around 11:15 p.m. on April 18 and asked a 27-year-old employee for coins in exchange for cash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say he then exited the shop, returned with a knife and demanded money, before making his way behind the counter, grabbing approximately $900.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A week later, he got away with $6,000 after robbing Apple Gourmet Farm, a supermarket in Boerum Hill.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD provided footage of the man taken inside 404 Atlantic Ave. The man is seen dressed in black clothing, wearing glasses, a black face mask and white shoes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The following morning, authorities say he stole around $380 from a deli in Park Slope, where he threatened a 61-year-old employee with a knife.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say no one was hurt during the robberies.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are searching for the man they say is responsible for a knifepoint robbery spree targeting businesses in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216230","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=216230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}