Bus office stick-up
Five masked robbers stormed into the third floor office of a Chinatown bus company on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 9, bound five employees with duct tape at gunpoint, including the owner, and made off with more than $27,000, police said.
Wearing ski masks, the robbers entered Golden Express Co., 15 Division St., a low-cost bus service to Atlantic City, shortly after 12:30 p.m., announced a hold-up and demanded to know where the safe was. They bound the victims with duct tape and forced them into a back room. One of the robbers inflicted a cut on the face of the owner as he was binding her, according to news reports.
Police said the investigation was continuing but there were no arrests by press time on Nov. 12.
Broadway assault
Police arrested two men on Sat., Nov.8 and charged them with assaulting a man in front of 359 Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Sts. around 2:20 a.m. The two suspects, Wilsor Emmanuel, 22, of Teaneck, N.J. and Jerome Edwards, of Powder Springs, Ga., punched and kicked the victim but were apprehended at the scene, police said. The victim suffered minor injuries. The suspects were being held pending a Dec. 8 court appearance.
— Albert Amateau
