Clothing Thief Made Off with 2 Grand in Merchandise

Sticks Up Bronx Store and Steals Clothes

Police are searching for this man in connection with the armed robbery of a Bronx clothing store. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

July 14, 2023

BRONX - Cops are looking for a less than fashionable gunman who made off with $2,000 worth of clothing stuffed inside a laundry bag in the Bronx. 

At around 4:30 pm on July 7, a man walked into a Snipes apparel on East Burnside and approached a 31-year-old female employee. He approached the clerk about making a purchase. 

Without warning the “customer” pulled out a handgun and told the worker to hand over merchandise. Cops said the gunman forced the worker to put clothes into the green laundry bag the suspect was carrying. 

Cops said the bag contained around $2,000 in clothing. The suspect slung the laundry bag over his shoulder filled with stolen merchandise and walked out of the store. Cops said he was last seen walking westbound on Jerome Avenue toward the Number 4 train station at Burnside Avenue. 

No one was injured during the armed robbery. 

Police released surveillance video of the suspect carrying a large and filled laundry bag outside the train station. The suspect is described as a male who is 5 foot 11 with a dark complexion and thin build. 

The suspect was last seen wearing a white tank top, blue jeans worn low revealing his blue boxers. He also wore gold and black sneakers.

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. 

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