Two headphone-snatching hooligans are being sought for robbing seven people in a weeklong spree in lower Manhattan and Staten Island, police said Thursday.
Cops believe the young suspects use the Staten Island Ferry to transport back and forth between the two boroughs following the first robbery on Feb. 10.
The thefts have continued through Tuesday, said police, who have released surveillance footage of the teens in the hopes someone recognizes them.
The quick moving crooks tend to steal pricey Beats headphones and Apple Air Pods from their unsuspecting victims, police said. In one case, they attacked a 14-year old boy and took his Moose Knuckles jacket, cops said. The winter jackets range in price from around $400 to $1,500, according to the company website.
The spree began Feb. 10 when the teens robbed three people in separate incidents beginning just before 7 p.m., cops said.
The duo is accused of creeping up behind a 29-year-old man on John St. near Gold St. in the Financial District and snatching the headphones off his head before running off down Gold St.
About a half-hour later the crooks snatched a pair of headphones from a 30-year-old woman walking past the corner of Warren and Church Sts., about eight blocks away from the first theft.
The woman was able to chase after the teens and retrieve her headphones, cops said.
The thieves resurfaced on Merivale Lane and Bay St. in Clifton, Staten Island, where they mugged the 14-year-old boy for his jacket, cops said. The suspects repeatedly punched the victim, breaking a tooth, cops said.
They returned to lower Manhattan the next day, where they swiped headphones from an 18-year-old girl on Warren St., police said.
The robberies continued in the same fashion on Thursday, where they robbed a 30-year-old woman of her Air Pods on Murray St., and on Monday when they swiped headphones from a 31-year-old woman on Nassau St. near Anne St., about two blocks from City Hall Park.
The last reported robbery committed by the suspects was at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, when they grabbed a 16-year-old girl’s headphones at State St. and Peter Minuit Plaza in lower Manhattan, just steps from the Staten Island Ferry.
Besides the teen whose tooth was broken, no injuries have been reported, police said.
Cops released images of the suspects from the third Feb. 10 robbery and are asking the public for information about them.
Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.