A Downtown Brooklyn man will spend 13 years in prison for carrying out a series of gunpoint robberies across Brooklyn over the course of four days in 2024.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say 34-year-old Jaquan Smith-Mack pleaded guilty in June to robbery. He was ultimately caught after police spotted him riding a stolen moped without a helmet.<\/p>\n
Officials say the robbery spree began on Sept. 27, 2024, when Smith-Mack approached a man near Navy Street and Park Avenue, showed the victim a gun in his waistband and told him to “run your pockets.”<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say the victim handed over his wallet and AirPods, but Smith-Mack also demanded the man’s glasses.<\/p>\n
Two days later, Smith-Mack targeted an Uber Eats delivery driver at an apartment building on Monument Walk in Fort Greene. He allegedly pointed a gun at the driver’s stomach and demanded the keys to a moped, saying, “If you don’t give me the key, I will shoot you.”<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Smith-Mack took the moped and the victim’s cellphone before driving away.<\/p>\n
The following day, prosecutors say he robbed a third victim at a bus stop on DeKalb Avenue in Clinton Hill after displaying a gun. The victim handed over $15.<\/p>\n
Hours later, prosecutors say Smith-Mack was seen riding the stolen moped through Bedford-Stuyvesant without a helmet or license plate and running red lights.<\/p>\n
When NYPD officers attempted a traffic stop, prosecutors say Smith-Mack drove onto a sidewalk, fell off the moped and ran away. He then tripped and fell again, allegedly throwing away a loaded handgun that was later recovered by officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Downtown Brooklyn man will spend 13 years in prison for carrying out a series of gunpoint robberies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336511","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\/336511","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=336511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}