A teenager arrested last week for allegedly participating in a stickup at a Glendale grocery store was linked to a similar robbery in Ridgewood days earlier, according to police.
Officers from the 104th Precinct picked up Bushwick’s Reymond Concepcion, 18, shortly after he and an unidentified accomplice allegedly robbed a bodega located at 61-20 Myrtle Ave. in Glendale at about 2:45 a.m. on March 16.
Video evidence subsequently linked Concepcion and his alleged cohort to a heist that occurred three nights earlier on March 13 at a deli located at 59-02 Myrtle Ave. in Ridgewood, according to the criminal complaint.
In both incidents, prosecutors said, Concepcion accompanied an unidentified male accomplice who pointed a gun at store employees and demanded cash. Concepcion allegedly walked behind the counter and took undetermined sums of money from the victims before fleeing with the gunman.
Upon apprehending Concepcion following the Glendale robbery, authorities noted, the officers recovered from him a black backpack that contained $300 in cash allegedly stolen from the shop.
Concepcion was charged with two counts of first-degree armed robbery and second-degree robbery, as well as additional counts of criminal possession of a weapon. His unidentified partner remains at large.
According to the Queens District Attorney’s office, Concepcion remains held on $30,000 bail and is due back in court on March 30.
