SELFIE POSING MUGGERS SOUGHT IN ATTACK ON MAN NEAR YANKEE STADIUM

Police are searching for this man in connection with shoplifting at a Bronx store in which a clerk was threatened. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

March 12, 2023 

BRONX -  A shoplifter threatened to stab an employee at a Bronx discount store when the worker tried to stop him from stealing a $5 tire repair kit. cops say. 

At around 5 pm on March 4, the suspect was seen on surveillance video inside Sister Discount store on Webster Avenue in Claremont Village. The suspect took a tire repair kit and tried to leave the store without paying for it. 

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A 45-year-old store employee tried to stop the shoplifter. Cops said the thief showed the worker an unknown object and threatened to stab him with it if he did not leave him alone. The shoplifter ran off northbound on Webster Avenue. 

The suspect is described as a man with a light complexion who is 5 foot 9 and 125 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, gray pants, sneakers and a white Do-rag.

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. 

All calls are strictly confidential.