Video: Popeye's Worker Menaced With Broomstick During Cell Phone Robbery
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are looking for a man who threatened a Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen employee with a broomstick before stealing his cell phone.
According to police, the male suspect entered the Popeye's location on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush and threatened the employee as the location was closing shortly after 1 a.m. on Nov. 8.
The man then took the employee's cell phone and left the location, police said.
The NYPD describes the suspect as around 35 years old, standing 5'10" tall and weighing around 190 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white, waist-length jacket, a black hooded shirt, black shoes, blue pants and a blue winter hat.
Surveillance video of the incident can be viewed above.
The NYPD is asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers by calling (800) 577-TIPS, logging on to their website at www.NYPDCrimeStoppers.com, or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. Tips can remain anonymous.
