Nassau Staples Worker Attacked With Printer Box, Police Say

LEVITTOWN, NY — Two Amityville men were arrested after police said they tried to steal a printer and office chair from a Levittown retailer, attacked a worker who confronted them, then attacked a police officer who tried to apprehend them.

Around 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, Justin Davis, 21, and Barrington Gray, 33, who live at the same address, tried to leave a Staples store on the Hempstead Turnpike with unpaid merchandise, Nassau County police said.

When a 41-year-old store manager confronted them, she was hit in the head with a printer box, leaving her with a minor head injury, police said. The duo dropped the printer on the ground and took off out of the parking lot in a gray Mitsubishi with the chair, police said.

Police officers found the men driving on Hempstead Turnpike and followed them onto an entrance ramp of Southern State Parkway. Davis and Gray stopped, got out of the car and ran off, police said. Gray, the passenger, was apprehended and taken into custody. Davis hit a police officer, leaving him with a cut to his ear, and continued to run, police said. He was eventually placed into custody after officers found him in a nearby sump pit.

Davis faces charges of second-degree robbery, second-degree assault and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Gray faces a second-degree robbery charge.

The duo was scheduled to appear Wednesday in First District Court in Hempstead.