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The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a shoplifting in the Bronx where a clerk was threatened with a knife. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

November 1, 2023 

BRONX - A shoplifter threatened a dollar store worker with a knife when the clerk tried to stop him, cops said. The NYPD has released surveillance video of a suspect who was last seen wearing a Bugs Bunny hoodie. 

At around 8:15 pm on October 24, a man tried to walk out of a Dollar General store in Mount Eden without paying for the merchandise he had. Cops said a 39-year-old employee saw that the man did not pay and attempted to confront the shoplifter outside the store on Jerome Avenue. 

Cops said as the employee tried to get back the stolen merchandise, the shoplifter pulled out a knife and threatened the clerk with it. The knife-wielding shoplifter fled on foot without the stolen merchandise, the NYPD said. 

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No injuries were reported. The suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and heavy build. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie with a Bugs Bunny and Warner Bros logo on the chest. He also wore grey pants, a black baseball cap and a black face mask.

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.