{"id":309491,"date":"2026-07-30T03:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:01:54","slug":"news-12-bronx-16-year-old-boy-robbed-at-knifepoint-during-social-media-meetup-gone-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309491\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 16 Year Old Boy Robbed At Knifepoint During Social Media Meetup Gone Awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a 16-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint during a social media meetup gone awry in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It unfolded on July 3 around 9:30 p.m. inside a building at the Patterson NYCHA Houses, near East 145th Street and 3rd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, the teen met up with a person he connected with on social media, who greeted him and led him inside. Here, the victim was confronted by two others &#8211; one held him at knifepoint while the other snatched his cellphone, a value of around $1,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the trio took off running after the robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No one was injured.<\/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 say a 16-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint during a social media meetup gone awry in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-309491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309491","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=309491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}