New NYPD footage captures the callous pair of home invaders who allegedly posed as Amazon workers, tied up an entire family – including three kids – and made off with thousands of dollars in a Queens heist earlier this week.
The clip, released by police Tuesday night, shows both perps wearing baseball caps – one carrying an Amazon box and the other wearing a bright-yellow vest – as they casually strolled down the quiet Whitestone block Monday morning.
An unsuspecting 43-year-old man answered the door of the single-family home on 12th Avenue near 152nd Street around 7:40 a.m. Monday, before the perps rushed inside – one armed with a gun, authorities said.
They then forced the family – also including two women, 39 and 18, and two boys, 10 and 5 – into the basement, cops said.
The money-hungry fiends tied up the victims and stretched duct tape over their mouths before they ransacked the home, swooping up about $16,000, jewelry, and electronic devices, police said.
The brazen duo used the victim’s own car, a silver Chrysler minivan, as the getaway vehicle. The car was found abandoned two blocks away, police said.
Witness John Nardone told FreedomNewsTV at the time that he had just climbed out of his car to get to work when he saw the terrified father running out of the house, tugging at duct tape on his face.
“I said, ‘are you ok?’” Nardone said. “He said his kids were in the basement.”
“I was wondering if this was real, because of that,” the witness added. “I’ve never seen something like that, like a guy come out of his house with duct tape all over his face.”
The NYPD is still looking to track down the pair of robbers.
Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
