NEW YORK, NY – A pair of bike thieves robbed a 29-year-old man in Bushwick on Monday and then maced him before fleeing with his bike.
According to the NYPD, shortly after 4 pm last Monday, a 29-year-old male was approached by two unknown male individuals in front of 486 Central Avenue.
“One of the individuals demanded the victim’s bicycle and removed keys to a bike lock from the victim’s back pocket,” the NYPD said in a statement today. “The individual then removed the victim’s bicycle and handed it to the second individual. The first individual then displayed a can of mace and sprayed the victim in the face.”
The two suspects then fled. The victim was treated by EMS at the scene for minor injuries and released.
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.