By Gus Saltonstall
Four gunpoint robberies took place Thursday night in Central Park, a police spokesperson told West Side Rag.
In all four incidents, a group of three men approached the victims and flashed a gun before fleeing on a bike, NYPD said. All the muggings took place along East Drive.
The spree began around 8:40 p.m. near East Drive and 79th Street, when three men threatened a 28-year-old man with a gun and grabbed his cell phone, police said. The trio then fled on one bike, NYPD added.
Around 50 minutes later at 9:30 p.m., the three men approached a 46-year-old man near East Drive and 109th Street, and once again flashed a gun and took his cell phone, police said. The trio fled on one bike once more.
Then at 9:45 p.m., the three men threatened a 22-year-old man and 20-year-old woman with a gun near East Drive and 106th Street, police said. They took both the victims’ cell phones and fled on a bike. While responding to the scene, two 43-year-old men went up to police officers and told them that they had also been robbed at gunpoint nearby by three men with a gun, NYPD said.
There were no injuries in any of the robberies, police added. Police did not provide a description of the suspects.
There are no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, NYPD said.
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Where is a description of the perpetrators?
There are not enough cops, lights, cameras in the upper part of the Park.
Not enough jail space!