Following a lengthy investigation, a 21-year-old man was locked up last week for participating in an armed robbery outside a Ridgewood store last April, police reported.
Shaquan Bullock of Brooklyn was taken into custody on Feb. 2 by the 104th Precinct Detective Squad for his alleged role in the robbery that occurred at 2:23 p.m. on Apr. 21, 2015, outside a shop on Woodward Avenue near Woodbine Street.
According to the criminal complaint that the Queens District Attorney’s office provided, Bullock and an accomplice — 19-year-old Denty Jones, also of Brooklyn — approached the victim as he was delivering items to the grocery store. Jones pointed a black firearm at the deliveryman’s waist and demanded money.
Bullock then removed $1,600 in cash from the victim’s pants pocket, then fled with Jones inside a gray sedan with North Carolina license plates, prosecutors said.
The incident was reported to the 104th Precinct; there were no injuries.
Moments later, authorities said, police in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, observed the two suspects inside the sedan in the area of Malcolm X Boulevard and Gates Avenue. According to the complaint, the duo stopped the vehicle and fled on foot; Jones was arrested shortly thereafter, but Bullock managed to evade capture. Police later recovered from the car a black 9mm pistol with two live rounds.
Bullock was arraigned last Tuesday in Queens Criminal Court on first- and second-degree robbery, second-degree armed robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. He remains held on $100,000 bail and is due back in court on Feb. 16, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office.
