By Geoffrey Croft
The police apprehended two teen suspects wanted in last night’s gun point robbery in Central Park.
The male victim, 37, was walking alone through the park at 9:40 p.m. at East Drive near 96th Street
wearing headphones, when a boy and girl, both 15, came from behind and pushed him.
One of the robbers was wearing a ski mask.
The male lifted his shirt to reveal the butt of a 380 semi-auto pistol gun tucked in his waist and demanded the victims wallet according to police.
"Give me all your stuff," the suspect demanded.
The victim handed over the wallet. When the victim couldn't open his phone with the pass code, the male suspect pulled the gun and racked the slid as if loading a bullet in the chamber.
The victim handed over the phone and the perps fled westbound in the park.
The victim used a park patrons phone to call 911.
While he was on the phone with the dispatcher, before the call was typed out and transmitted, the alert came over the smartphone of the NYPD's plain clothes team inside the park who went to the victims location.
Police canvassed with the victim and they activated his Find-My-iphone app. Police used their department issued smart phones to track the missing phone and found it still inside the park.
Police spotted the suspects matching the description walking on West Drive near 96th Street. They spotted the police and ran. They were caught.
In a bag the female was carrying, police found the stolen wallet, the ski mask used during the robbery.
The male suspect had the ringing stolen phone in his front pants pocket and the gun still tucked in his waistband. The gun was unloaded.
The female suspect is from the Bronx and the male suspect is from Manhattan, both 15 were charged with robbery as juvenile offenders.
The victim is a Manhattan resident.
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