Bicycle muggers in Yonkers steal cell phone – lose bike.
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- August
- 27
This report from writer Will David in Yonkers caught my eye today.
YONKERS – A feisty 17-year-old Bronx girl tussled with two muggers who robbed her of her cell phone yesterday in a parking lot at the Cross County Shopping Center, police said.
The two men who were riding bicycles managed to wrestle the girl’s cell phone away from her, but she held onto one mugger’s bicycle, forcing him to flee on foot.
The girl was talking on her cell phone in the northwest parking lot near Macy’s department store at 4:15 p.m. when the two bicycled up to her, Yonkers Detective Lt. Thomas Cleary said.
The pair tried to take her cell phone and she fought back. They finally got the $300 cell phone but lost a bicycle. They escaped in opposite directions. One mugger ran away and the other rode the bicycle.
The girl turned over the bicycle to the police when they arrived to investigate the robbery.
One mugger is described as a 5-foot-9, 160-pound, 18-year-old black man. He wore a white T-shirt and blue jeans. The second was a 5-foot-5, 140-pound, 18-year-old black man. He wore a long-sleeve black shirt.
The girl was not injured.
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