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Drug dealer threatens man with butcher knife on Brooklyn subway: NYPD<\/p>\n
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u00a0More Local News\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n There have been no arrests.<\/p>\n The subway rider was not injured.<\/p>\n There have been 1,131 transit crimes reported this year, just eight fewer than at the same time in 2025, according to NYPD data.<\/p>\n Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work here.<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n