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UWS Smoke Shop Robbed In Apparent Crime Spree: NYPD
The same suspect is tied to at least two other late night smoke shop robberies in which he feigned having a gun, police said.

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The same suspect is tied to at least two other late night smoke shop robberies in which he feigned having a gun, police said.

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