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NYPD: 2 Men Make Off With $10,000, Cellphones In Robbery At Brooklyn MetroPCS Store

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are looking for two men who they say robbed a Brooklyn cellphone store, getting away with a pile of cash.

The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. Sunday at the MetroPCS store on Bedford Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The suspects walked into the store, showed a gun and forced the lone store employee into the bathroom, police said.

They then took $10,000 in cash along with some phones before fleeing the scene.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips to the Crime Stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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