cigarettes online

Robbery charges: Majed Sweis, 35, of 10 Simkin Drive in New City pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree robbery, second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery and fourth-degree grand larceny. In a release, the District Attorney's Office said Sweis stole a box containing 30 cartons of cigarettes online from a Mobil On the Run store in Nyack on Feb. 21 and threatened to shoot the store clerk. Then on Feb. 26, Sweis entered the same store, produced a knife and demanded money from the clerk, the district attorney said. In the course of the robbery, Sweis cut the store clerk on the arm with the knife, stole money and buy cigarettes and fled in a car toward the New York State Thruway, the district attorney said. Officers from the Clarkstown Police Department chased the car and stopped it by the Nanuet Mall.