Criminal Duo Wanted for Cellphone Store Holdups Across Brooklyn

Photo courtesy of the NYPD.

A pair of men in their late 20s are wanted by the NYPD for holding up cellphone stores in Williamsburg and Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

In two separate incidents, one of the men displayed a firearm to a store employee, police said, while the other walked behind the counter and removed any cellphones and cash he found stashed there.

“There were no injuries sustained to the victims as a result of these incidents,” the NYPD said in a statement.

The first holdup went down on Sunday, July 26, around 2 p.m. at the Metro PCS store on Havemeyer Street and Borinquen Place in Williamsburg.

And the suspects’ technique became a pattern on Sunday, August 13, when they allegedly entered the T-Mobile store at Myrtle and Carlton avenues in Fort Greene and pulled off the same stunt.

Police describe the suspects like so:

• A 25- to 30-year-old black male wearing a blue button-down shirt, a blue Yankees cap and sunglasses.
• A 25- to 30-year-old black male wearing a pink button-down shirt, a gray cap and sunglasses.

Anyone with information about the suspects or the holdups is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted online.