YONKERS – Yonkers police have arrested three subjects for a daytime robbery of a jewelry store. The fourth suspect has been identified, according to police.
The three arrested suspects, all residents of the Bronx are Nykem Alston (aka Tyrese Robinson), 21-years-old, Alfred Long, age 35, and Alexander Wilson, age 21. Alston and Long were each charged with felony robbery, felony grand larceny, and felony burglary.
The incident began Thursday, May 12, when four masked men began breaking the front window of Golden Square Jewelry with a sledgehammer at 28 South Broadway shortly after 5:00 p.m. While Yonkers police were responding, witnesses observed the men fleeing in an SUV.
Police were at the scene within minutes and the canvassing units located the fleeing SUV in the Park Hill neighborhood. Officers pursued the vehicle before it crashed into a retaining wall on Marshall Road just east of Birch Road.
The four occupants abandoned the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot with officers chasing them. Two of the suspects were captured within minutes, and a third within an hour as they attempted to escape and conceal themselves in the wooded area adjacent to the Saw Mill River Parkway.
A neighborhood perimeter was established in the Park Hill and Tibbetts Park areas as Yonkers Police and Westchester County Police searched for the fourth suspect.
The investigation determined that the four suspects smashed the storefront window of the jewelry store with a crowbar and sledgehammer and removed a large amount of gold and jewelry from the front display, estimated by the store owner to be worth about $100,000.
Police say that the fourth suspect has been identified and additional arrests are anticipated. Investigators found and identified proceeds from the robbery within the crashed SUV.
Detectives also believe that the suspects may have been casing another jewelry store on McLean Avenue earlier. One of the suspects, Alston, provided a false name in an effort to conceal a bench warrant for his arrest in relation to a New York City attempted murder charge in 2019.
Suspect Alexander Wilson remains hospitalized in a local area trauma center as a result of the vehicle crash and will be charged in the near future.
The surveillance video provided by Yonkers police can be viewed below.
