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Bronx Local News: Cell Phone Dispute Turns into Prison-Style Beat Down- Teen Robbed

5 Beat, Rob Teen of Phone, Sneakers By Dan Gesslein  Bronx Voice  November 12, 2025  BRONX LOCAL NEWS : A teenager received a prison-style beat down when a group of men beat and stomped him during a robbery in the Bronx.  The vicious beating happened in Mount Eden on October 27. At around 7 pm, a 16-year-old boy was walking in the vicinity of East 174th Street and Townsend Avenue when he was approached by a male. The man asked the teen to use his cell phone. When the teen refused the man punched him in the face causing the victim to fall to the ground.  While laying on the sidewalk, four of the attacker’s accomplice ran over and began punching and kicking the defenseless teen. The attackers yanked the phone out of the teen’s hands and pulled his sneakers off his feet.  The muggers then ran off in an unknown direction but not before their images were captured on street surveillance cameras. All five suspects were seen wearing dark clothing an...

Neat Crook Steals Cleaning Supplies



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 25, 2023


BRONX - A crook made a clean getaway when he robbed thousands of dollars of cleaning materials from a Bronx building. 


At around 2:17 am on January 5, police say a man hopped over a fence in the rear of a commercial building at 1382 Shakespeare Avenue in Mount Eden. The suspect entered the building through a basement door. 


Cops released surveillance video which shows the suspect coming out of an elevator with boxes of cleaning chemicals worth $500. 


The crook came back an hour later and stole a cleaning machine. Cops say the machine is valued at around $2,500. 


Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.

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