{"id":553596,"date":"2026-01-30T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:05:26","slug":"brooklyn-muggers-lure-teen-to-apartment-building-then-beat-him-in-online-jacket-sale-scam-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553596\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn muggers lure teen to apartment building, then beat him in online jacket sale scam \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brooklyn-muggers-01282026.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brooklyn muggers suspected of robbing teen\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn muggers lure teen to apartment building, then beat him in online jacket sale scam 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in Brooklyn are looking for four muggers who beat a teen earlier this month during a jacket sale gone bad.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> are looking for four muggers who beat a teen earlier this month during a jacket sale gone bad.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the victim, a 15-year-old boy, entered the Carey Gardens NYCHA apartment building located at 2832 West 23rd St. in Coney Island just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 17. <\/p>\n<p>The boy had scheduled a meet-up over social media to sell his jacket. Instead, sources said, he walked into a trap.\n<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the location, cops said, four suspects ambushed the teen, demanding all of his belongings and threatening to \u201cstab\u201d him. The group then unleashed a flurry of fists upon the youngster, then forced him into the building\u2019s stairwell.<\/p>\n<p>There, police sources said, they stripped him of his jacket, two cell phones, and a cellphone charger, then made a run for it.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd60pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60th Precinct<\/a>. Police said the teen was treated on the scene by EMS for what was described as minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the NYPD released surveillance images of the suspects, who appear to also be teens; most of them wore masks and hooded sweatshirts.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives in Brooklyn are looking for four muggers who beat a teen earlier this month during a jacket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,4219,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,24672,7207,7272,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-553596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-pm-newsletter","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-robbery","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115983255475565760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}