Crime & Safety
Gun-Toting Trio In Wash Heights Robs Man Of $8K In Cash: Police
Police released photos Thursday of three men wanted in connection to a recent gunpoint robbery on West 160th Street in the Heights.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A man was recently robbed at gunpoint of an iPhone and roughly $8,000 in cash by three men in Washington Heights, the New York Police Department said on Thursday.
Three men approached a 47-year-old man on Saturday around 9:30 p.m. in front of 517 West 160th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam, police said.
One of the three men flashed a gun while the other two took the man's bag, containing his phone and $8,000, before quickly running away in an unknown direction, police said.
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There were no injuries and no arrests.
On Thursday, police released photos of the men wanted in connection to the robbery.
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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).
All photos courtesy of the New York Police Department
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