{"id":68486,"date":"2025-12-12T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68486\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:12:09","slug":"ski-mask-wearing-brute-robs-off-duty-nypd-officer-at-knifepoint-in-williamsburg-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68486\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski mask-wearing brute robs off-duty NYPD officer at knifepoint in Williamsburg: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ski mask-wearing brute <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/02\/off-duty-cop-robbed-of-watch-at-knifepoint-in-nyc-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robbed an off-duty NYPD cop at knifepoint<\/a> in Brooklyn early Thursday, cops and sources\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37908346\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/thief-ski-mask-crowbar-looking-117179069.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a ski mask and hoodie holding a crowbar, captured on surveillance camera at night.\" class=\"wp-image-37908346\"  \/>The mugger grabbed the victim\u2019s car keys, wallet, and phone before he took off. AntonioDiaz \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37908345\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/117179056.jpg\" alt=\"Two NYPD officers in uniform facing away from the camera in a snowy New York City street.\" class=\"wp-image-37908345\"  \/>An off-duty NYPD cop was robbed at knifepoint at Metropolitan Avenue and Leonard Street in Williamsburg on Thursday at approximately 2:20 a.m. Rush \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The mugger \u2014 also seen wearing all black \u2014 stormed up to the 31-year-old victim around 2:20 a.m. at Metropolitan Avenue and Leonard Street in Williamsburg <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/27\/us-news\/23-year-old-thug-suspected-of-beating-off-duty-nypd-officer-in-caught-on-camera-assault-is-nabbed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">while displaying a knife<\/a>, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed the victim\u2019s car keys, wallet and phone on the mixed residential and commercial block before taking off, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He had not been arrested hours later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0victim, who sources described as an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/26\/us-news\/brutal-video-shows-masked-thugs-stomping-on-off-duty-nypd-cops-face-in-brazen-robbery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">off-duty officer<\/a>, was not hurt, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ski mask-wearing brute robbed an off-duty NYPD cop at knifepoint in Brooklyn early Thursday, cops and sources\u00a0said.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,57,9,24,55,54,56,103,58],"class_list":["post-68486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486","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=68486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}