Cops Catch Stickup Kids On A Bus Using Find My iPhone App
Police caught up with two young thieves traveling on an MTA bus Saturday by using a Find My iPhone app to track the location of a smart phone the perps had lifted off a group of teens.
The stickup kids, ages 15 and 20, approached a five teenagers in the afternoon at a playground in Bath Beach, according to the NYPD. The pair allegedly pulled out a gun and forced the teens to turn over two cellphones before taking off.
A mother of one of victims helped police use a Find My iPhone app to locate one of the phones. Officers could see the stolen item was traveling west on Mermaid Avenue, authorities say.
After police broadcast the phone’s location and a description of the suspects, officers realized the two youths were traveling in a B74 bus through Coney Island. Two plainclothes officers boarded the bus at West 28th Street and Mermaid Avenue and removed the suspects onto the sidewalk, according to police.
The officers searched their captives and recovered the stolen cell phones and a Crossman Vigilante BB gun, cops say.
The two suspects, Rysheek Dixon, 20, and Timothy Wright, 15, were charged with robbery, criminal possession of a disguised gun, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of stolen property and menacing, according to police.
