{"id":378916,"date":"2026-10-21T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378916\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:02:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-accused-of-robbing-15-year-old-with-a-machete-on-the-northbound-2-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378916\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Accused Of Robbing 15 Year Old With A Machete On The Northbound 2 Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are looking for a person who is accused of robbing a 15-year-old boy with a machete on the subway in Longwood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened at 11:18 p.m. Sunday while on the northbound 2 train near Westchester and Intervale avenues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a person approached the victim, opened his book bag, showed him a machete and took the victim&#8217;s sneakers. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say a 25-year-old man tried to assist the victim, but the suspect punched him in the face. The suspect then ran away.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The theft victim was not injured. The 25-year-old sustained minor injuries and refused medical attention. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect is described as a man with a light complexion, between the ages of 17 and 20. He has a heavy build, short black braided hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was last seen wearing a black jacket and gray sweatpants. He was also carrying a black book bag. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a person who is accused of robbing a 15-year-old boy with a machete on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-378916","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\/378916","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=378916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}