2 nabbed in armed robbery of Merrick shop

Two Bay Shore men were charged in the gunpoint robbery Saturday morning of a Merrick electronics store during which an employee and a customer were held captive briefly in a backroom.

During the robbery, the two forced an employee and a customer to a back room in the store but were interrupted when a second employee entered the store, police said.

The vehicle hit a traffic-control box at Babylon Turnpike and Merrick Road, and officers investigating the robbery arrested the two as they tried to run from the vehicle, police said.