Masked robbers tie up workers in Queens dollar store robbery

Sunday, February 25, 2018
COLLEGE POINT, Queens (WABC) -- Masked bandits tied up two employees during a gunpoint robbery in Queens. The robbers pushed their way into a Dollar General store in College Point just after 8 a.m. Sunday.

The two bandits wore gloves, and with their faces covered, barged in and tied up two employees in the bathroom, while they forced the manager to open the safe.
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Police say the thieves made off with more than a thousand dollars, the employees' cellphones and the store's landline phone and scanners.

It is unclear how the employees freed themselves.
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Investigators spent hours inside combing for clues. The investigation is currently ongoing.

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