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The 29-incident spree began on June 15 in Hunters Point and ended on July 10 in Richmond Hill, police said. NYPD<\/p>\nA 17-year-old boy was busted and multiple other moped-riding menaces are wanted by police in a weeks-long, 29-incident robbery spree that mostly targeted chain-wearing victims across Queens and Brooklyn, police said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teen was nabbed on Tuesday in connection with seven robberies between July 1 and July 8, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In six of the hold-ups, he and his accomplices allegedly stole chains from men between the ages of 16 and 49 in Astoria, Richmond Hill, Bayside, Ozone Park and Flushing, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was charged with grand larceny in those crimes, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The 29-incident spree began on June 15 in Hunters Point and ended on July 10 in Richmond Hill, police said. NYPD<\/p>\n
In another, the teen and his pals allegedly rolled up to a 41-year-old man on 87th Road near 155th Street in Jamaica around 5:10 p.m. July 1 and stole a moped, authorities said.<\/p>\n
He faces a second-degree robbery rap in that incident, according to cops.<\/p>\n
\u201cMultiple\u201d other bandits on wheels are wanted in connection to the 29-incident spree that began on June 15 in Hunters Point and ended on July 10 in Richmond Hill, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The spree included one gunpoint robbery \u2014 in which the crew flashed the weapon at a 20-year-old man before grabbing his chain on Liberty Avenue near 110th Street in Ozone Park around 11:15 a.m. July 10, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The youngest victim was a 14-year-old boy who had his chain yanked away when the suspects approached him on a moped around 4:30 p.m. June 25 at 42nd Avenue and Bell Boulevard in Bayside, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The youngest victim in the string of heists was 14 and the oldest was 80, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n
The oldest was an 80-year-old man, whose chain was forcibly stolen around 11:40 p.m. July 5 at 70th Avenue and 108th Street in Forest Hills, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victims were mostly men, aside from a 45-year-old woman who was walking on Manhattan Avenue near Milton Street in Greenpoint around 1:50 p.m. June 24 when the moped-riders ambushed her and ripped the chain off her neck, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All of the victims were either unharmed or refused medical attention, according to police.<\/p>\n
The NYPD released surveillance images of two of the suspects who remain at large in hopes of tracking them down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n