Crime & Safety
Fake Friends Rob Teenage Boy On Upper East Side: Police
It was a fun group hang of five friends until four of them jumped and robbed their former buddy, officials said.
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Apparently five is a crowd, but four is robbery.
Police say that a group of young friends turned on a member of their party Sunday night on Third Avenue on the Upper East Side and robbed him of cash.
At about 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, five friends were hanging out near East 74th Street and Third Avenue when an unspecified disagreement led to a teen getting jumped by his four former buddies, police said.
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The teen, a 14-year-old boy, told police he knew his four robbers and that they took cash from him, according to officials.
A department spokesperson could not confirm how much nor if any other property was taken.
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The four people fled in an unknown direction on foot, police said.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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