Police are asking for help tracking down a group they say is behind a string of bike robberies across Brooklyn \u2014 and in several cases, the victims are teenagers.<\/p>\n
Investigators say six people are wanted in connection to at least five incidents reported between March 20 and April 8 in Bensonhurst, Crown Heights, Mill Basin and Park Slope.<\/p>\n
Police released images of the group, showing them riding on mopeds with their faces covered. The pictures are not very clear, but officers are hoping someone recognizes something.<\/p>\n
According to police, the pattern started March 20 near 14th Avenue and Cropsey Avenue in Bensonhurst. Two teens, ages 14 and 15, were surrounded while riding a moped. One was punched, and the group took the moped and a sweatshirt before fleeing.<\/p>\n
On April 4 in Crown Heights, a 31-year-old man was approached while riding his moped. Police say one person showed a knife and took the vehicle. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Two more incidents happened April 6. In Mill Basin, a 36-year-old man was approached by a group riding mopeds. Police say one person showed a gun, but they were not able to take his motorcycle. Later that day in Bensonhurst, a 15-year-old was pushed off an e-bike, and the group took the bike and a backpack. That victim had minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The most recent case happened April 8 in Park Slope. Police say a 16-year-old riding a moped was approached by a group, who took the vehicle and ran off. That victim also had minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Police say many of these robberies happened in the afternoon and involved groups approaching people riding mopeds or e-bikes.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for help tracking down a group they say is behind a string of bike robberies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-207053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207053","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=207053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}