Six pint-sized perps – two of them solely 13 – have been busted in a violent knifepoint theft of a straphanger inside a Midtown subway station early Tuesday, cops and sources stated.
The three boys and three women approached the 35-year-old sufferer, a stranger, on the N/R/W prepare platform at Fifth Avenue/59th Road round 3:15 a.m., in response to authorities and sources.
One of many boys flashed a knife earlier than grabbing the sufferer’s iPhone and a bag of garments he’d been carrying, cops stated.
A feminine confederate punched him within the face through the early-morning mugging, police stated.
The youthful ruffians fled out onto the road after the assault – however weren’t on the run for lengthy earlier than cops caught as much as them, sources stated.
The boys, 13, 14 and 16, have been taken into custody, alongside the women, 13, 16 and 18, the sources stated.
Expenses have been pending towards the violent crew.
The assault got here a couple of half-hour after a masked duo robbed a 63-year-old man at a knifepoint additional uptown, cops stated.
The pair flashed a gun earlier than grabbing the sufferer’s cellphone and $100 from him at East 98th Road and Madison Avenue in East Harlem round 2:45 a.m., police stated.
The pair, final seen sporting black face masks, fled the scene.
The sufferer was not injured.
