Hicksville Man Arrested In Pair Of Knifepoint Robberies: Police

Hicksville NY

25 February, 2021

4:55 PM

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HICKSVILLE, NY — A Hicksville man has been nabbed by detectives for two knifepoint robberies — one in 2017, the other in 2018 — at Hicksville businesses, Nassau County police said. Detectives said Juan Carlos Ortiz, 27, flashed a knife and made off with money from a 53-year-old clerk working behind the counter at Spirits Wine and Liquor on East Old Country Road back in January 2018. He also flashed a knife in a robbery in December 2017 at Citgo Gas Station on South Broadway, police said. No one was injured in either robbery. Ortiz was charged with first-and-third-degree robbery, both felonies, on Thursday. He was scheduled for arraignment on Thursday. If convicted on the top charge of first-degree robbery, he faces up to 25 years in a state prison.