It seems that some people may be running around bars in Brooklyn in broad daylight at gunpoint. At least three bars have been robbed and there are strong indications that the same people are behind the robberies. Our friends at Eater reported the story yesterday morning, complete with descriptions. The bars that have been robbed are Bait and Tackle on Van Brunt Street, Floyd on Atlantic Avenue and Moonshine on Columbia Street. We also received an email from someone that works at one of the bars that was robbed. Here’s some of what we have:

Two weeks ago, the bar [Bait and Tackle] was robbed at gunpoint on a Sunday afternoon. In broad daylight, the woman opening the bar had a gun put to her head, was trussed in duct tape, and was locked in the bathroom.

A week later, about the same thing happened at about the same time at Moonshine, on Columbia Street. I can’t pretend to know all the details, but the MO and the description of the two guys doing it match completely. As does the gun pointed at the woman opening the bar.

Now it turns out that the same thing happened about a month ago at Floyd, on Atlantic Avenue. This I know very little about, except what I hear from friends.

On Wednesday, I asked a Red Hook cop on patrol if he knew anything about about these robberies. He said he had only heard about the Bait and Tackle robbery…the fact is, if somebody is running around pointing guns at people in South Brooklyn bars in the middle of the day, the people that work in them need to know this. It’s not good enough to pretend that there isn’t a problem, and it’s not good enough to quietly say “were working on it.” Thus far, it’s a fluke that nobody has been hurt yet, and if these guys are brazen enough to rob Moonshine and the Bait and Tackle on consecutive Sunday afternoons, then they are brazen enough to use the guns they point.

We could says “developing,” about this story, but we hope there are no other developments other than the people behind the robberies being caught.