{"id":136114,"date":"2026-02-17T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:59:28","slug":"nypd-charges-nearly-20-people-after-chaotic-scene-at-bronx-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136114\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD charges nearly 20 people after chaotic scene at Bronx mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"w1n4q\">Nearly 20 people are facing charges after a massive group of disorderly teenagers descended on a Bronx mall on Presidents Day, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e8g5n\">Police said they were called to the Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester around 2 p.m. Monday to help with crowd control. When officers arrived, they encountered dozens of teens who refused their commands to disperse, NYPD officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"65fvk\">Police said early Tuesday that 17 people under 18 years old were arrested, along with one adult. They were all charged with rioting or unlawful assembly, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fq53s\">Authorities said they are still investigating the incident and whether any property was damaged.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5fue2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NYStateOfMind\/comments\/1r6tkta\/was_at_bay_plaza_just_now_and_was_trying_to\/?share_id=qtv1aqDsbYhokmzyha107&amp;utm_content=1&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a> posted to social media on Monday showed young people throwing chairs inside the mall\u2019s food courts, jumping on store counters and running in different directions outside the complex.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7skfo\">This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 20 people are facing charges after a massive group of disorderly teenagers descended on a Bronx mall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-136114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136114","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=136114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}