Woman’s phone robbed in cell phone store

April 14, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Police are searching for the man who stole a cell phone in Bushwick. Photo: NYPD

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BUSHWICK — POLICE SAID A 27-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was inside a wireless phone store at 917 Broadway in Bushwick when she was approached by an unidentified man who simulated that he was in possession of a weapon and forcibly removed her cell phone. The suspect then fled on a moped northbound on Broadway. The robbery took place on Thursday, March 6, at around 2:30 p.m., and the victim was uninjured. The suspect is described as having a medium complexion and was last seen wearing a black hooded jacket, gray sweatpants and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), on X @NYPDTips, or by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website.

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