What to Know
- A robber was caught on camera wrestling a bag filled with $500 in cash from a Wendy’s employees hands
- The man entered the Wendy's in the Bronx around 4 a.m. on Saturday, police said
- The 65-year-old employee wasn't injured during the robbery
A robber was caught on camera wrestling a bag filled with $500 in cash from a Wendy’s employees hands, police said.
The approximately 20- to 30-year-old man entered a Wendy’s at 3636 Boston Rd., in the Edenwald section of the Bronx, around 3:52 a.m. on Saturday, the NYPD said.
Surveillance video from the eatery shows the robber crouching in a doorway, leaping toward a 65-year-old employee and ripping a bank bag from her hands before fleeing the scene.
The employee wasn’t injured during the robbery, according to police.
The robber stands at around 5-foot-7, weighs around 165 pounds and was last seen wearing a red shirt and dark jeans, the NYPD said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
