Crime & Safety

Little Neck Nail Salon Robbed

Police Say They Are Searching for Two to Three Suspects

Police said they are searching for two to three suspects who pulled off an armed robbery and stole the surveillance tapes from a Little Neck nail spa this afternoon.

The robbers entered Coco Nail Spa, located at 245-14 Horace Harding Expressway in Little Neck , around 2:30 p.m. and demanded money, police said.

The suspects then took the videotape from the store's security system before fleeing the scene,111th Precinct Capt. Ronald Leyson. Cops could not specify how much money had been stolen from the spa.

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Leyson said he believed at least one of the robbers was armed.

Workers and managers at nearby stores along the Little Neck shopping strip said they did not witness the robbery. Several of them said the incident was the first of its type in the neighborhood of which they were aware.

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The incident arrives on the heels of two recent robberies at 7-Eleven stores in Bayside.

Four suspects were in police custody earlier this month on charges stemming from at 20 least robberies in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. One of the incidents took place at the 7-Eleven at 202-15 Northern Blvd.

On Monday morning, a robber wearing a black mask robbed another 7-Eleven at 218-01 Northern Blvd. around 4:21 a.m., police said.

The suspects were armed in both Bayside incidents, police said.


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