Crime & Safety

Duo Steal Cash-Filled-Safe From Clinton Hill Restaurant: NYPD

Police are still looking for the men who stole a safe from a Caribbean restaurant in Clinton Hill last month.

The duo robbed Wray's Restaurant, a Caribbean seafood eatery located near the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street (pictured here).
The duo robbed Wray's Restaurant, a Caribbean seafood eatery located near the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street (pictured here). (Google Maps)

CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN — Two men broke into a Clinton Hill restaurant and stole a safe filled with cash last month, police said.

The duo forced their way into Wray's Restaurant, a Caribbean seafood eatery located near the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Ryerson Street, and ran off with a $400 safe filled with $70 in cash at about 2:45 a.m. on Jan. 10, according to the NYPD.

Police captured surveillance photos of the men in the restaurant, but as of Feb. 15 — over a month after the robbery — no arrests have been made and an investigation into the robbery remains ongoing, an NYPD spokesperson said.

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The robbers are described as a pair of 25 to 35 year old men, police said.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked by police to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). People can also submit tips online or on Twitter, @NYPDTips.

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