Crime & Safety
Card Store Robbed on South Oyster Bay Road
Middle-aged bandit brandishes stun gun and flees with cash.
A middle-aged man armed with a stun gun threatened a store clerk on South Oyster Bay Road Monday and fled with the contents of the cash register, Nassau Police said.
said the robbery occurred just after 3 p.m. Monday at the 50% Off Card Store on the Hicksville side of South Oyster Bay Road. The suspect approached the counter and demanded money from a 24-year-old cashier.
The man, described as 45-years-old wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, black sweat pants, sunglasses and appearing unshaven, then went behind the counter and took an undetermined amount of cash from the register, police said.
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At the time, the suspect was brandishing a stun gun, police said.
The suspect fled the scene in an unknown direction.
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No injuries were reported.
Nassau detectives ask anyone with information to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous, police said.
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