{"id":351324,"date":"2026-09-19T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351324\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:52:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-duo-wanted-in-social-media-meetup-turned-gunpoint-robbery-inside-claremont-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351324\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Duo Wanted In Social Media Meetup Turned Gunpoint Robbery Inside Claremont Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for a man and a woman who they say are responsible for a gunpoint robbery inside Claremont Park. Sources close to the investigation say the woman met the victim on social media and lured him to the park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It unfolded near East 170th Street and Clay Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the woman met with the victim, a 35-year-old man. Her alleged accomplice, whom the victim did not know, then walked up to the pair.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Moments later, the woman took out a gun and demanded the victim\u2019s property. Police say the victim handed over his bracelet, necklace, watch and wallet, which contained around $600.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The duo took off running after the incident. No one was hurt, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources say the woman met the victim in person one time before the robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released a social media image of her on Saturday. She is pictured with long black hair, a black headband and a nose piercing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A description of the man allegedly involved in the scheme was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police urge anyone with information 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 a man and a woman who they say are responsible for a gunpoint robbery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-351324","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\/351324","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=351324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}