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A Robber Lied About a Giant Dead Rat in the Bathroom to Rip off a Bushwick Smoke Shop

The suspect then smashed the cash register and stole $400 and an iPhone.

By Evan Haddad

April 25, 2018 · 1 min read

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A Robber Lied About a Giant Dead Rat in the Bathroom to Rip off a Bushwick Smoke Shop

The suspect then smashed the cash register and stole $400 and an iPhone.

Evan Haddad April 25, 2018Apr 25, 2018 · 1 min read

A man lied about a dead rat in the bathroom of a Bushwick smoke shop to lure a worker there and rob the store while he was gone, police say.

Around 11:30 a.m. on March 2, a man wearing a New Orleans Saints jacket walked into Tony’s Smoke Shop at 66 Wyckoff Ave. in Bushwick and asked to use…

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