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Police: Brooklyn Man Robs Liquor Store Through Ceiling

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Police are searching for a man they say entered a liquor store through the ceiling and got away with thousands of dollars.

Police said the man entered the store through the ceiling, damaging several bottles of alcohol; and took about $10,000 from the cash register before escaping through the same opening in the ceiling.

The incident occurred at Mr. Liquor Inc. in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn on Thursday, February 4th.

The individual is described as a black man wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and grey sneakers.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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