Armed Harlem Delivery Muggers Now Connected To 9 Stickups: Police

HARLEM, NY — The number of delivery workers targets by a brazen group of armed crooks in Harlem is growing, police said.

An additional five robberies are now believed to be connected to a group of armed bandits who recently robbed four delivery workers in one night, bringing the total number of victims to nine, NYPD officials said.

The new Harlem robberies all unfolded before originally reported four armed muggings, which all took place on Feb. 29, police said.

In each of the newly connected instances, the robbers used knives, razor blades and guns to forcibly steal the workers' e-bikes, police said.

The first robbery took place about midnight Feb. 19 along on East 110th Street between Lexington and Third avenues, where two men flashed razor blades and stole an e-bike from a 21-year-old delivery worker, officials said.

Two days later, a pair of men on Saint Nicholas Avenue near West 120th Street pulled out a gun and pushed a 39-year-old worker off of his e-bike, stealing it, about 9:30 p.m.,police said.

The next day about 7:45 p.m., a man pulled a gun on a 22-year-old worker making a delivery on East 109th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues and stole his e-bike, officials said.

And Feb. 28, two workers were targeted four hours and just blocks apart, police said.

The first victim, a 35-year-old delivery worker making a delivery near Eighth Avenue and West 111th Street, was pushed off his e-bike by a man with a knife about 5 p.m., police said.

And hours later at 9 p.m., two men pulled a gun and a knife on a 38-year-old delivery worker near West 119th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue, stealing the workers bike, officials said.

According to police, none of the five newly reported robberies resulted in injuries.

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