Six pint-sized perps – two of them solely 13 – had 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 ladies approached the 35-year-old sufferer, a stranger, on the N/R/W prepare platform at Fifth Avenue/59th Avenue round 3:15 a.m., in keeping with 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, had been taken into custody, alongside the ladies, 13, 16 and 18, the sources stated.
Prices had been pending towards the violent crew.
The assault got here a few 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 telephone and $100 from him at East 98th Avenue 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.
