Cops: Cedarhurst Verizon store worker menaced during robbery

Five were arrested and an accomplice is still being sought after a robbery Tuesday of a Verizon store on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, Nassau County police said.

Two females — Shareezy Sancho, 18, of East 95th Street, Brooklyn, and Miracle Mann, 16, of Wartman Avenue, Brooklyn — were scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in First District Court in Hempstead, police said, both charged with first-degree robbery and third-degree criminal mischief.

Mann also was charged with second-degree menacing and fourth-degree possession of a dangerous weapon.

Three juveniles — two girls and a boy, ages 14 and 15 — also were arrested, police said.

Police said the five entered the Verizon store at about 4 p.m. and, while the sixth suspect, who is being sought, distracted a store employee, they took items and fled the store without paying for them. When confronted by the store employee one of the suspects, identified by police as Mann, “picked up a metal pole and threatened him.” No one was injured.

Police said the employee called 911 and that officers located and arrested the five suspects a short time later near the intersection of Central Avenue and Williams Street in Lawrence.

It was not clear what was taken — or if the items were recovered. Police said the investigation is continuing.

By John Valenti

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John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”