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Duo robs $9K cash from NYC restaurant owner in brazen, broad daylight theft
NY Post/UpperEastSite.com ^ | 2/14/2022 | Reuven Fenton and Tina Moore

Posted on 02/15/2022 3:38:49 PM PST by mononymous

A pair of robbers tied up an Upper East Side restaurant owner and an employee as they held them at gunpoint in the pursuit of cash, cops said Monday.

The duo barged into Nino’s Italian Restaurant on First Avenue near East 73rd Street around 2 p.m. Sunday — one of them brandishing a silver handgun — and targeted the 65-year-old owner Nino Selimaj, police said.

Selimaj told The Post he was only in the store for a short time preparing for the Super Bowl rush when one of the robbers came in, waving the gun at him.

“He said, ‘Go down, motherf–ker, go down!’” Selimaj said. “He had a silver pistol pointed at me in the middle of the dining room. I said, ‘I’m down.’ He got on me, tied my hands.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: monkeyshine
What kind of restaurant has $9k in cash?

I'm not saying additional transactions could be involved, but ya never know...

21 posted on 02/15/2022 4:19:51 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Bonemaker

If Nino was paid up on his “insurance”, the robbers won’t be around long.


22 posted on 02/15/2022 4:27:58 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: mononymous

Annnnd no description of the robbers....HMMMMMMMM????????


23 posted on 02/15/2022 4:33:20 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: mononymous

Uh oh. One of the cops isn’t wearing a mask outside. The mayor might have him arrested and let the robbers go free.


24 posted on 02/15/2022 4:34:22 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Seruzawa

RE: Lol. Silver handgun. Lol.
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Now as the restarateurs will soon learn, it is better to whirl around with something other than a spatula in hand.

Miami Vice weapons:
Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs was armed with a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun in the first season. In Season 2, he used an Ithaca 37 sawed-off pump shotgun called an Ithaca Stakeout,] which he carried on a halter under his jacket. Beginning in Season 3 (and for the remainder of the show), he carried a modified, short-barreled Remington 870. As a backup, he carried a Smith & Wesson Model 38 Bodyguard with Pachmayr grips. He can also be seen using a SIG P228 in the series finale ‘Freefall’ and a Smith & Wesson Model 36 in the pilot episode.

Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson):

Originally,he was to use a Browning BDA .45 ACP, often mistakenly identified as a SIG Sauer P220 in .45 ACP. The grips and markings to the right side of slide make this subtle difference evident in the pilot episode.

He also carries a Detonics Pocket 9 chambered in 9mm Parabellum as a backup, tucked in his rear waistband near the small of his back. But it was later decided that a more state-of-the-art gun was to be used by Don Johnson. During the first season, he used a Bren Ten pistol carried in a Ted Blocker “Lifeline” shoulder holster rig.

Due to Don Johnson’s dissatisfaction with the “Lifeline” rig, the Jackass Leather Company (later renamed Galco International) “Original Jackass Rig” shoulder holster rig was personally fitted for him by Rick Gallagher (President of Galco). Finally the Galco “Miami Classic” shoulder holster was designed and used.

The Bren Ten, manufactured by Dornaus & Dixon, was a stainless steel handgun notable as the first ever chambered in the powerful 10mm Auto caliber. The Bren Ten was originally manufactured as a two-tone weapon: the carbon steel slide was black oxide and frame was stainless steel. The model used in Miami Vice had a hard chromed matte finished slide so that it showed up better during night shots.

The pistol used in the show was chambered in .45 ACP, as opposed to the standard 10mm Auto due to the fact that .45 ACP blanks were far more plentiful, as they had been used in movies and film for decades, and 10mm Auto blanks were simply not available.

After the Dornaus & Dixon company went out of business in 1986, the product placement contract went to Smith & Wesson. Starting with the third season, Sonny used a 2nd Generation series Smith & Wesson Model 645. This was a full-sized 5-inch-barreled stainless steel service pistol in .45 ACP. Galco Gunleather again fashioned a “Miami Classic” shoulder holster for Johnson’s new S&W 645 pistol.

In the Galco Gunleather headquarters, there is a large display that contains the Miami Vice shoulder holster rig that Don Johnson wore, accompanied by an autographed photo of him. In late 1988 Smith & Wesson unveiled their new 3rd Generation Series of auto pistols, which coincided with the fifth and last season of the series; as the producers desired to keep Crockett as being seen to be on the cutting edge of weaponry, Sonny’s Model 645 was replaced with the new Smith & Wesson Model 4506, also chambered in .45 ACP. This pistol had 20+ design improvements including a one piece arched grip. Sonny’s 4506 can be seen in the beginning of the episode “Victim of Circumstance” when he is sitting in a cafe, looking at it. Sonny also carried a .45 ACP Detonics Combat-Master backup gun in an ankle holster on his left leg, replacing the Pocket 9 from the pilot episode. It can be seen in the bar scene shootout in the “Prodigal Son” episodes. In the last series episode “Freefall” Crockett is placing what looks to be a S&W CS45 (compact alloy framed .45 ACP) in his ankle holster.

All excerpted from Wikipedia’s good article Firearms in Miami Vice.


25 posted on 02/15/2022 4:36:52 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: The Louiswu

26 posted on 02/15/2022 4:38:24 PM PST by PGR88
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To: frank ballenger

Yep. Stainless steel or more rarely nickel plated. But not silver.

With the abysmal education level of “journalists” its going to get even worse.


27 posted on 02/15/2022 4:44:41 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Now that they have a good description of the color of the handgun, I hope it is arrested.


28 posted on 02/15/2022 4:51:58 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: monkeyshine

The restaurateur, who said he had $9,000 in his pocket that he’d borrowed from one of his customers because “business freakin’ sucks,” offered up the cash.

Something fishy here.


29 posted on 02/15/2022 5:01:05 PM PST by clockwise
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To: frank ballenger

A Smith 4506 would be one of my last carry choices if there was a chance of falling out of a boat. The Browning BDA was a P220 with cosmetic differences but the horrible heel based mag release.


30 posted on 02/15/2022 5:01:41 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: clockwise

31 posted on 02/15/2022 5:04:01 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Bonemaker
There was a time in America if someone heisted an Italian restaurant they’d get awarded a set of cement swim fins.

In the good old days, yes, but this Italian restaurant (like many in NY these days) is owned by an Albanian.

32 posted on 02/15/2022 6:03:31 PM PST by Mozzafiato
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To: Tijeras_Slim
A Smith 4506 would be one of my last carry choices if there was a chance of falling out of a boat. The Browning BDA was a P220 with cosmetic differences but the horrible heel based mag release.

I'm sure you're right....

But comb your hair just right, wear the right jacket, look up and show your handsome face so the women praise you and it'll all work out fine.

33 posted on 02/15/2022 6:48:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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