A minimum of seven New Yorkers have been focused in a string of vicious heists — together with a 14-year-old boy who received his tooth knocked out by the brazen robbers, police stated.
The wicked duo seem to have launched their weeklong spree on Feb. 10, once they pummeled the teenager boy, punching him within the face a number of occasions, earlier than operating off along with his Moose Knuckles jacket at round 8:40 p.m. on Staten Island, cops stated.
The boy was left with a damaged tooth within the assault, and brought to Richmond College Medical Middle, the place he was listed in secure situation.
That mugging, which occurred on Merivale Lane and Bay Avenue in Staten Island’s Clifton neighborhood, was essentially the most violent — however not the one one to victimize metropolis kids, in accordance with police.
Two teen women, 16 and 18, have been additionally robbed of their headphones in Decrease Manhattan, which is the place the remainder of the crimes within the spree unfolded, cops stated.
The older woman was focused round 4:30 p.m. Feb. 11 on Warren Avenue close to Church Avenue in Tribeca, and the youthful sufferer close to the southern tip of the borough at Peter Minuit Place and State Avenue round 11:25 a.m. Tuesday, authorities stated.
The pair additionally stole headphones from a 29-year-old man on John Avenue close to Gold Avenue; two 30-year-old ladies in separate incidents at Warren and Church streets, and Murray Avenue close to West Broadway; and a 31-year-old lady at Nassau and Ann streets, police stated.
Apart from the teenager crushed on Staten Island, nobody was harm in the course of the string of robberies, cops stated.
The NYPD on Thursday launched photographs of each suspects, one inside a subway station and the opposite out on the road.
Anybody with data on the crimes is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public can even submit their ideas by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
