Crime & Safety
Thieves Rob 2 Spas In Flushing, Astoria Just Days Apart: NYPD
The four perps stole cellphones and a combined $1,500 in cash during stickups at the two Queens spas, cops said.

QUEENS, NY -- Police are searching for a group of thieves who stole a combined $1,500 from two Queens spas in robberies that happened less than a week apart.
The four men first hit up the Golden Prince Spa at 33-70 Prince St. in Flushing just on July 13 just before noon, grabbing two employees and demanding money, cops said.
The thieves took $500 in cash and a cellphone before fleeing the spa in a black four-door Honda sedan, authorities said.
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In the next stickup on July 18 at about 4:25 a.m., the perps targeted the Angels Love Bubbles spa parlor at 28-51 31 St. in Astoria. They pulled a sharp object on a 37-year-old woman and demanded money, police said.
The group made off with $1,000 and four cellphones, again fleeing the spa the black Honda.
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The NYPD released surveillance photos of the four men, who cops estimate to each be about 5-foot-10 and between 20 and 22 years old.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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