{"id":133115,"date":"2026-02-14T00:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133115\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:15:30","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-pair-wanted-for-robbing-14-year-old-boy-of-his-scooter-at-knifepoint-in-midwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133115\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Pair wanted for robbing 14-year-old boy of his scooter at knifepoint in Midwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for two men who they say are responsible for robbing a 14-year-old boy of his motorized scooter at knifepoint in Midwood.<\/p>\n<p>The men approached the boy near West 12th Street and Avenue P just after 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say one of the men displayed a knife and kicked the boy all over his body while demanding that he give over the scooter.<\/p>\n<p>The second man then mounted the scooter and rode away, traveling northbound on Bay Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was not injured, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>One of the robbers was last seen wearing a green jacket, gray pants, multicolored sneakers and a gray backpack, while the other was observed in all black with multicolored sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for two men who they say are responsible for robbing a 14-year-old boy of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,56882,12038,6633,9,24,63,1690,12413],"class_list":{"0":"post-133115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-electric-scooter","12":"tag-knifepoint-robbery","13":"tag-midwood","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-robbery","18":"tag-teen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}