Police Officers Daniel Rivera (l.) and Mark Shackel. Photos Courtesy of NYPD.
Two 106th Precinct cops responding to a building alarm last week interrupted a robbery in progress at a Rockaway Boulevard phone store and arrested the armed perpetrator who initially attempted to fool them by claiming he was an employee even as he was rifling through a cash register, according to the Police Department and published accounts.
NYPD Conditions Team Officers Daniel Rivera and Mark Shackel arrived at the MetroPCS store to find the suspect at a counter. As he allegedly impersonated an employee, the cops heard sounds emanating from a back room in which an actual store worker was bound and gagged.
The suspect resisted arrest, but Rivera and Shackel were able to cuff him, confiscate the handgun and free the female staffer.
On Twitter, Rivera’s dad, Ivan, a retired NYPD detective, gave kudos “to my son Daniel and his partner #proudfather…”
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