The NYPD is searching for three men who robbed a Bed-Stuy smoke shop and beat two employees.<\/p>\n
Police say the robbery happened around 6 p.m. Tuesday at Franklin Convenience.<\/p>\n
The men forced the male employees, 17 and 21, into a private office inside 311 Franklin Ave. where they confiscated and damaged their cellphones.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the robbers struck the 21-year-old in the face with a gun.<\/p>\n
The men stole merchandise, a checkbook and approximately $2,600 from a safe and cash register.<\/p>\n
Police say they ran from the scene, traveling northbound on Franklin Avenue.<\/p>\n
Both victims sustained pain and bruising from the attack.<\/p>\n
The NYPD urges anyone with information to call its Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is searching for three men who robbed a Bed-Stuy smoke shop and beat two employees. Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[211,4987,98,100,99,9,24,63,103,1690,25791],"class_list":["post-88120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-assault","tag-bedford-stuyvesant","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-robbery","tag-smoke-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88120","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=88120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}