Central Park Robbery: 13-Year-Old-Girl Arrested In Attempted Purse Snatching

Central Park has been home to a number of robberies, as well as more serious crimes during the rough years in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. However, not many criminal incidents are executed by elementary school kids.

The famous greenspace of Frederick Law Olmsted's imagination has seen its crime rate decrease recently. But that fact didn't stop a 13-year-old girl from attempting to steal a woman's purse Monday evening.

The 13-year-old girl, who has since been arrested, was allegedly in Central Park with two other accomplices. One, an estimated 10-year-old is wanted in association with the attempted robbery and the other young person is wanted for questioning in the incident.

A 38-year-old woman was taking a walk on the temperate Spring evening around 8 p.m. in the area of 5 Av and E 107 Street, along Manhattan's Upper East Side near the border with East Harlem. The 13-year-old girl arrested in the Central Park robbery allegedly demanded the woman's phone and switched her concentration to the woman's purse when she refused to surrender her cell phone.

A 4-foot-5-inch boy was also involved in the incident, during which the woman fought off her pint-sized attackers. The NYPD is looking for the other two children and is asking anyone with information about the Central Park robbery to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.