NEW YORK, NY – Police are investigating after a Queens CVS store was robbed at knifepoint on Monday. According to police, at around 1:30 pm, the suspect entered the CVS store at 329 Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick.
The suspect pulled a knife on a store employee and fled the store, stealing merchandise.
“The individual displayed a knife to a store employee and removed store products and then fled on foot eastbound on Myrtle Avenue,” the NYPD said in a statement today.
Police are asking the public for assistance in identifying the suspect.
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). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
