VIDEO: Thief Hauls Off $45K In Downtown Gunpoint-Robbery

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — A gun-toting robber used a rolling suitcase to haul off $45,000 in electronics from a Downtown Verizon store before fleeing in a yellow cab, police said Monday.

The Financial District heist was captured on surveillance footage and shows the thief rolling through the 2 Broadway store on Nov. 29 at about 7:45 p.m. He approached a 26-year-old employee and flashed a gun, demanded he lock the shop's doors and then forced him to open a safe in the back, authorities said.

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The crook packed his suitcase and the store employee's backpack with $45,000 worth of goods and grabbed $400 from the register, cops said.

He fled the shop and fled west on Beaver Street before hailing a yellow SUV taxi and sped off southbound on Broadway.

Police describe the suspect as in his 30s, between 5-feet-8 and 5-feet-10, and roughly 200 pounds. He wore a blue-and-red baseball cap with the letters “PR” on the front, a blue jacket, blue jeans and dark shoes with a green rolling suitcase.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Photo and video courtesy of NYPD