A man is taken into police custody after a two-hour search in Tompkinsville last night.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Two men and a teenager from Brooklyn have been charged in connection with an armed deli robbery that sparked a tense police confrontation in Tompkinsville last night.
Police say Dwayne Sanders, 22, Willie Gary, 23, and Kwameek Stallings, 17, robbed the Staten Convenient Food Market at 164 Victory Blvd. Tuesday night, then hid under the store’s bathroom insulation after being interrupted by police.
Helicopters and heavily-armed police units swarmed the block, shutting down part of the neighborhood for two hours until they found the suspects in the bathroom.
As police tell it, Gary held a gun to the deli clerk’s head while Sanders and Stallings took money from the cash register and lottery tickets from the counter.
One of the suspects forced another man in the store at gunpoint into a back bathroom.
Sanders then took Gary’s gun, ordered the clerk to hand over his wallet, and repeatedly pistol-whipped him in the back of the neck, court papers allege.
After their arrest, Gary tried to give police a fake name, while Stallings tried to convince police he was 14 years old, court papers allege.
All three face first-, second- and third-degree robbery charges, said William J. Smith, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
Stallings and Gary also face an additional charge of false personation, while Sanders faces two counts of second-degree assault.
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