Two Teens Nabbed For String Of Robberies At Long Island T-Mobile Stores

Two teens on Long Island are facing a host of charges after forcibly stealing Apple products from several T-Mobile stores and threatening violence when employees sought to intervene, police said.

Lanizja Myers
Photo Credit: *Nassau County Police*

Elyanni Sesay
Photo Credit: *Nassau County Police*

Zak Failla

11/13/2021 7:30 a.m.

In Nassau County, police Robbery Squad detectives said that Lanizja Myers, of Rosedale, and Brooklyn resident Elyanni Sesay, both 19, entered the T-Mobile locations and forcibly removed Apple iPhones and Apple Watches.

Investigators said that in the instances when a store employee would attempt to stop them, the two teens threatened that they had a weapon and displayed a taser and pepper spray.

Police said that the robberies occurred at T-Mobile locations at:

481 Old Country Road in Westbury at 7:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29;
672 Stewart Ave. East in Garden City at 7:38 p.m. on Sept. 29;
143 West Jericho Turnpike in Mineola at 7:55 p.m. on Sept. 29;
1199 Grand Avenue in Baldwin at 1:55 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6;
88 Manetto Hill Mall in Plainview at 5:05 p.m. on Oct. 6;
348 West Sunrise Highway in Valley Stream at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4.

Myers and Sesay were charged with five counts of first-degree robbery, grand larceny, and criminal mischief. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Friday, Nov. 12 at First District Court in Hempstead.

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