A Great Neck man was arrested in the March robbery of a fellow ex-convict after New York Police Department officers apprehended him on a separate drug charge in Brooklyn this weekend.
The NYPD arrested Bjorn Brodsky, 28, on charges of narcotics possession on Sunday.
The NYPD then notified the Nassau County Police Department, who took Brodsky into custody for the alleged robbery of a man Brodsky knew from his time in prison for a 2011 illegal weapons charge, according to Nassau County Police.
Brodsky, a Village of Great Neck resident, allegedly drove to the Oyster Bay home of the robbery victim on March 19 and asked the 19-year-old man to speak to him. The victim, an ex-convict who served time in the same prison as Brodsky according to a Nassau County Police spokesperson, allegedly entered Brodsky’s sedan, which was also occupied by two unknown white men.
Brodsky allegedly threatened the victim with a hypodermic needle and told him to empty his pockets. The victim complied, turning over a wallet which police say contained only personal papers before being shoved out of the parked car, police said.
Brodsky allegedly fled west-bound on Shore Road, and the victim suffered no injuries.
The arrest was not Brodsky’s first run-in with the law.
Brodsky was sentenced to a year in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty for criminal possession of a weapon. According to the criminal complaint from that case, on Aug. 12, 2011 Brodsky screamed “give me my medication or I will [expletive] kill you” at the victim while slamming a large kitchen knife repeatedly into the kitchen table at his Village of Great Neck home.
Brodsky was also accused of choking the victim during that incident, but was not convicted on that charge.
The criminal complaint also stated that Brodsky had a previous drug conviction in 2010 for illegal possession of a controlled substance.
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