{"id":200300,"date":"2026-04-17T02:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:53:37","slug":"news-12-bronx-teen-robbed-of-scooter-slapped-in-the-face-in-highbridge-4-men-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200300\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Teen Robbed Of Scooter Slapped In The Face In Highbridge 4 Men On The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for four men who they say robbed a 16-year-old boy of his scooter and slapped him in the face in Highbridge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The men surrounded the teen near 1430 Plimpton Ave. around 2 p.m. on April 4.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say one man demanded the teen&#8217;s property while simulating a firearm. The teen handed over his keys when another man slapped him in the face.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two men rode off on the teen&#8217;s scooter, traveling southbound on Edward L Grant Highway, while the other two ran away, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The teen suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say all four men were last seen in black clothing. Two were observed wearing black ski masks, one with a black durag and the fourth with gray sneakers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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 four men who they say robbed a 16-year-old boy of his scooter and slapped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200301,"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-200300","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\/200300","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=200300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}