Halsey Street Man Charged with String of Hold-Ups

A 25-year-old Bed-Stuy man was charged with holding up three Long Island electronics stores.

Nassau Police arrested KaJuan Crawley, who lives on Halsey Street near Throop avenue, following a hold up at a Radio Shack at 264 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre on Thursday, June 21st.

According to Nassau police, the three men came into the store at about 2:14 p.m. One of the men took out a long barreled revolver and announced that the shop was being held up. The employees were forced to the back of the store while the men loaded up with cell phones, gaming systems iPads and other electronics.

The men ran out with the goods and jumped into an SUV with Florida plates and drove off. A witness tried to follow them in his car, but was prevented by doing so by Crawley along with Jamar Parker, 28, of Hempstead, who were in a second car that blocked the witnesses’ path, police said.

Cops caught up with Crawley and Parker about four miles away at Fulton Avenue and North Franklin Street in Hempstead and arrested them.

Parker and Crawley were later charged with trying to rob a T-Mobile store at 590 Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead on June 20.

Just recently, cops also charged the pair with the robbery of a T-Mobile store at  at 391 Peninsula Boulevard Hempstead on June 11 and the robbery of Radio Shack at 541 Old Country Road in Westbury on June 18.

In all, Crawley and Parker were charged with fourteen counts of robbery and six counts of criminal possession of stolen property. They will be arraigned on the most recent charges on January 24.