Surveillance video shows gunman outside Bronx post office during attack on worker. (Obtained by New York Daily News)
A Bronx postal worker was pistol-whipped by a gunman who then stole $112,000 cash and 10 boxes of money orders from a post office safe Tuesday, police said.
The postal worker had just been dropped off by her husband at the Castle Hill Ave. branch when she was attacked about 7 a.m. The crook, who was lying in wait outside the branch, pistol-whipped her and ordered her to open the post office and then the safe inside, cops said.
The post office was not scheduled to open until 8 a.m.
Surveillance video shows gunman outside Bronx post office during attack on worker.
A deli worker on the block, who gave his name only as Mohammed, didn’t see what happened, but later watched surveillance video his store captured.
The gunman pulled up to the post office in a white Honda Odyssey minivan at 5:22 a.m., the video shows. He sat behind the wheel as the postal worker and her husband pulled up in a dark gray minivan at 7:05 a.m.
The deli worker said the postal worker always gets dropped off by her husband, who helps her open the gate before he drives off.
“[The husband] walked back to his car, he parked across the street,” Mohammed said. “Today somebody [the gunman] was parked out front in a white Honda Odyssey. He was parked before 6, he waited from that time to 7.”
At 7:08 a.m., the gunman got out of the Honda and ran toward the post office, the video shows.
“The guy pulled out a gun and put it to her head,” Mohammed said. “The husband sees that and he ran back to the door. The robber opened the door and dragged them in.”
“You want to be a hero? You and her go both,” the robber told the husband, before forcing him inside the post office with his wife, according to an account Mohammed heard from cops.
A Bronx postal worker was pistol-whipped by a gunman who then stole $112,000 cash and 10 boxes of money orders from a post office safe Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Ellen Moynihan/New York Daily News)
The crook cleaned out the safe, which contained the cash, money orders and a printer, before running out of the location.
He was back in the Honda at 7:17 a.m., when he drove away.
The employee was treated at the scene. Her husband wasn’t hurt.
Surveillance video shows gunman outside Bronx post office during attack on worker.
“The good thing is, no one got hurt,” Mohammed said. “That could have been me, it could have been anyone.”
The Postal Inspection Service is leading the investigation with support from the NYPD and FBI.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Postal Inspection Service at (212) 330-5266.
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