Haggling Gets Out of Hand

On March 1st, an employee at a grocery store on First Avenue said that a woman entered the store and began haggling over the price of a cigar. The perpetrator yelled at the defendant and jumped over the counter. She then grabbed the employee, a 48-year-old man from Queens, and forced him to open the cash register, while holding an unknown hard object against his back. The victim did not resist, as he feared that the object was a gun, and removed $970 cash from the register. She also took the phone from the counter. Police are on the look-out for a black woman approximately 6'3".