Cops: Woman robbed in parking lot of Riverhead coin-op laundry

Riverhead police are seeking the public’s help in finding two men who robbed a woman at gunpoint early Sunday in the parking lot of a coin-operated laundry.

There were no injuries.

According to police the robbery happened at about 12:45 a.m. at the Laundry Palace on Harrison Avenue in Riverhead while the 35-year-old woman was sitting in her car.

Police said two men approached the car and one opened the passenger-side door and displayed what the victim described as a black handgun. The suspect then took her handbag from a passenger seat.

The suspects fled the area on foot in an unknown direction.

“Riverhead Police sector units along with a New York State Police K-9 unit responded and checked the area,” police said in a news release. “The search of the area by the NYSP K-9 unit proved to have negative results.”

Police said the handbag contained an unknown amount of cash.

Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call the Riverhead Detective Division at 631-727-4500 ext. 326.