Three men in a white Lexus robbed a man at gunpoint in the Bronx about two blocks away from Yankee Stadium, and took a bag filled with $12,500 cash, police said Sunday.
The 53-year-old victim was getting out of his car near Gerard Ave. and E. 157th St. just after 11 a.m. Friday when the three robbers stepped up to him.
One of them flashed what appeared to be a black firearm, and the other two relieved him of his bag, cops said.
The trio then got into a white Lexus and fled west on 157th St. toward River Ave, cops said.
The victim was not hurt during the stickup.
Police on Sunday released photos of the suspects, who they describe as three Hispanic men in their late 20s, each between 5-feet-7 and 5-feet-10.
Cops are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
The stickup comes amid a nearly 23% drop in robberies in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct, which saw 135 robberies as of April 27 compared to 175 in the same time period last year, according to NYPD statistics.
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