Knife Used Again In Repeat Upper East Side Sweets Robbery: Police

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A knife was used to steal sweets from an Upper East Side CVS store on Wednesday morning, police said.

It's the second time since Sunday that a knife has been used to satisfy a sweet tooth's sticky fingers.

The latest robbery at the CVS on Lexington Avenue near East 87th Street happened on Wednesday morning at around 7:10 a.m., police said.

According to officials, workers said a man — known to employees as a habitual shoplifter — entered the store empty handed, but tried to exit with a sweet treat without paying.

The man whipped out a boxcutter when confronted by a worker, police said, and fled the store.

Police said a subsequent search for the crook was negative, but confirmed the stolen item was a Rice Crispy Treat.

On Sunday, a man at the same CVS store pulled a knife and threatened to slash a worker when his thievery was interrupted, police said.

In that robbery, the man stole a Godiva chocolate treat and a Hallmark bag, officials added on Wednesday.

While the description of the crooks is similar — a male around 30-years-old — police said a positive identification has yet to be made to officially determine if both sweet tooth robberies were done by the same treat-obsessed fiend.

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).