Police are looking for a man they say robbed a cabbie at gunpoint after he picked him up from a Bronx motel.
The livery cab driver, 64, picked the suspect up from the Paradise Motor Inn on Boston Road around 8 p.m. on Aug. 3 and drove him about 5 miles away to an address on Rogers Place, police said.
When they arrived at the destination, the suspect pulled a silver gun and held it to the right side of the driver’s head, demanding he fill a bag with cash.
“Give me the money right now or I will shoot you!” the suspect allegedly threatened.
The driver complied, placing an undetermined amount of money in the satchel before the suspect ran off.
The driver was not physically harmed in the incident.
The alleged suspect in the robbery is seen on camera.DCPISurveillance video released by police on Saturday shows the suspect, who appears to be between 20 and 30 years old, leaving the motel with a bag in hand before getting in the cab. He was last seen wearing an all-black outfit, hat, sunglasses and white surgical mask.
