{"id":917919,"date":"2026-07-07T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:22:18","slug":"3-goons-try-to-rob-elderly-man-outside-nyc-home-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917919\/","title":{"rendered":"3 goons try to rob elderly man outside NYC home: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shameless trio tried to rob an elderly man outside his Bronx home Sunday morning, running away with his security camera when their attempt failed, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old man was walking to his Soundview home near Westchester and Metcalf Avenues around 4:20 a.m. when he was approached by the brazen crew, who demanded the elder\u2019s money, the NYPD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the victim refused to hand over his cash, the wannabe robbers followed him as he escaped to his nearby home, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of trashy 20-somethings tried to rob an elderly man right outside of his Bronx home, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old man was walking to his Soundview home near Westchester Ave. and Metcalf Ave. around 4:20 a.m. when he was approached by a triumvirate, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>When the old man refused to hand over his cash, the creepy crew then followed him as he made an escape to his nearby home, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>After the elderly man made it inside and locked himself in, the trio started to bang on his door, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it became clear the 73-year-old wouldn\u2019t open up, the three goons then ripped his Ring security camera off the exterior wall and disappeared into the wind, authorities added. <\/p>\n<p>Pictures released by cops show the triad of vicenarians, which include an inked-up woman wearing a white shirt, a tattooed man wearing a baseball cap and a man in a camouflage t-shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!CTNR_MWpPchql3yrgXWLFXz0xFJFG8825ZUkcvaO2XystOMCg1OLXplYky1e8VZhQqEU1Hv3l9qX28kToN0$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X at @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shameless trio tried to rob an elderly man outside his Bronx home Sunday morning, running away with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":917920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,11306,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-917919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-robberies","tag-the-bronx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917919","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=917919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}