Police Search For Team Of Man, Woman In Ozone Park Bank Robbery
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police and the FBI were searching Friday night for a man and woman who robbed a bank at gunpoint in Ozone Park, Queens.
As WCBS 880's Peter Haskell reported, the robbery happened around 7:50 p.m. Thursday at the TD Bank at 97-17 Rockaway Blvd. in Queens.
The man and woman were both armed with black handguns as they stormed into the bank, police said. One of them went behind the teller station and took an undetermined amount of money from the teller drawers, police said.
The suspects then ran off, police said.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said a male-female bank robbery team is quite unusual.
"Everything old is new again," Bratton said. "Here's a newer version of Bonnie and Clyde."
Police released multiple images from surveillance video at the bank.
"You see the first individual -- he has a gun in hand, and he immediately goes to the security person there," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
The NYPD-FBI Violent Crime Task Force is investigating. The NYPD and the FBI have reorganized the unit, which used to be known as the Joint Bank Robbery Task Force.
"The collaboration that exists now in this city is as good as I've ever seen it," said FBI New York Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez.
Anyone with information on the robbery was asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS or the FBI tip hotline at (212) 384-500, log onto the Crime Stoppers website, or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and enter TIP577.