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Foiled Best-Buy Robber Uses Pepper Spray to Get Away

October 17, 2022 | 11:05 AM
in CRIME, NEWS
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The suspected robber. Photo via NYPD press office.

By Carol Tannenhauser

With less than two weeks until its October 29th closing date, the Best Buy at 1880 Broadway, between 61st and 62nd Street, was the site of an attempted robbery on Saturday, October 15th at 3:55 pm.

The alleged would-be robber (pictured above) snatched a laptop worth more than $2,000, police told the Rag, “but he didn’t get away with it.” He did, however, get away. “When a 30-year-old male employee confronted him and recovered the laptop, the suspect pepper-sprayed him in the face and fled on foot. The store employee refused medical attention. No property was removed.”

Anyone with information regarding 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.

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Carlos
Carlos
1 year ago

Thank you for sharing. Hopefully they will catch him and he will be penalized accordingly, and perhaps this will make others think twice about trying something similar. The people who work in some of these retail stores deserve hazard pay for what they are forced to deal with.

Despite the doom and gloom of a pending recession, there are plenty of jobs out there at all skill levels. I wish people would choose to be productive members of society rather than rob stores – many people make excuses for them and say that it is because they are down on their luck. First, this doesn’t excuse it. Second, there are opportunities – they might not be their dream jobs but most of us don’t have dream jobs.

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OPOD
OPOD
1 year ago

This guy will do hours behind bars when he is caught.

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Keith
Keith
1 year ago
Reply to  OPOD

Is there a contest among all you UWS doomers to see who can be the first to post this comment on each new crime story? There’s clearly not a contest to see who can post the most original thought…

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good humor
good humor
1 year ago
Reply to  Keith

That criminals aren’t punished is so fundamentally flawed, so against common sense, with such grave consequences to innocent people, that it bears repeating.

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CardiZ
CardiZ
1 year ago

Being pepper sprayed leaves you in horrific pain, and in some cases, can lead to eye damage. This employee should get hazard pay.

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Peter
Peter
1 year ago
Reply to  CardiZ

This employee should get a reprimand by management – but most of all by his family. It’s pure chance that the suspect only had a pepper spray – and not a knife or gun – in the current environment.

He risked his life – literally – for a stupid laptop that NOONE cares about – not Best Buy, and certainly not the politicians or DA’s office charged with maintaining law and order. His parents, children etc. are extremely lucky not to lose a loved one.

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Concernedsmallbusinessowner
Concernedsmallbusinessowner
1 year ago
Reply to  Peter

And allow this to keep continuing because no one cares, right? Individuals would stop doing this if we had LEADERS, Elected Officials and the DA’s office care about crime and punishment. This employee cared about doing what’s right and should be hailed as a hero for trying to prevent a theft and I AM VERY thankful he is OK.

And that stupid laptop that NOONE cares about? No, Best Buy cares which is why they are LEAVING and we are not going to have a store there. Now it will be a big huge vacancy where more mentally ill will huddle and approach people or others attempt to punch or rob us. Just great. Best Buy cared. It’s the current ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO DON’T.

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Jen
Jen
1 year ago
Reply to  Concernedsmallbusinessowner

I think Peter was sarcastic and brought attention to the current administration policies.

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Ronald McKeen
Ronald McKeen
1 year ago

Get this criminal. His image is known by now. No freedom because of no bail policy. He used a weapon on a human being. Bring him to trial. Find him guilty, if he is, and lock him up for a couple of years. This has got to stop and this will make an example to other would be criminals.

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Jean
Jean
1 year ago

Charming fellow.
Until the DAs have this happen to them or their families, this will simply continue.

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Elisabeth Jakab
Elisabeth Jakab
1 year ago

Sorry Best Buy is leaving. Also sorry so many increasing robberies – and attempted robberies – on our Upper West Side. Where are the police????? Having a latte somewhere?

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Karen Bruno
Karen Bruno
1 year ago
Reply to  Elisabeth Jakab

They were “defunded” and disrespected so now you reap what you have sown!

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