According to the cops, the robbery was not Bitcoin-related. The robbers were after his fiat cash and the credit cards. He was forced to give his credit card PIN number to the robbers, and might have already lost tens of thousands of USD. I just hope that the perpetrators will be arrested soon and removed from the general population.
I think you're referring to the previous, similar case (also happened in NY):
In February, the New York Observer reported quoted a bitcoin dealer named Dean Katz, who described how he had been robbed at gunpoint by a man in Queens who had arranged to meet him to buy bitcoin so the man could gamble on the Super Bowl. Katz said he was forced to transfer $8,500 worth of bitcoin and also was robbed of $3,500 in cash.
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The Observer article said that a New York City firefighter had been stabbed during a robbery of bitcoins that he had agreed to sell. But police on Friday told CNBC that that robbery, which occurred on Feb. 9, "is not bitcoin related." The firefighter's credit card and PIN number were stolen, and he was stabbed in the arm, police said.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102737187That's all pretty confusing. Katz claims to be robbed out of BTC, while police say his case is not bitcoin-related (?).