{"id":1999,"date":"2007-01-11T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/whats_this_generation_coming_to.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T17:36:50","slug":"whats_this_gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/whats_this_gene.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s This Generation Coming To?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heartless scam artists responsible for bilking Staten Islanders out of hundreds of dollars turn out to be 12 and 14<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The search for two scam artists who traded on tall tales about dead relatives and needy families came to an end in West Brighton last night.<\/p>\n

Not with a whimper, or a high-speed police chase.
\nBut with the young suspects knocking on a door.<\/p>\n

A cop’s door.<\/p>\n

A brother-and-sister team from the neighborhood — the boy just 12 and the girl 14 — were arrested on charges they have been duping Staten Islanders for months, police said.<\/p>\n

The middle-school miscreants were roving Davis Avenue in West Brighton at about 5:40 p.m. when they unwittingly arrived at the cop’s home, according to a police source familiar with the case.<\/p>\n

Sensing something was amiss, the cop’s wife called her husband, and officers from the North Shore’s 120th Precinct were immediately dispatched, the source added.<\/p>\n

The kiddie culprits were caught a few houses away, with a professional-looking ledger stuffed of falsified donation receipts from two funeral homes for about $150, the source continued.<\/p>\n

The duo reportedly confessed to concocting various tall tales, saying that money was tight at home and they were trying to help out their mom.<\/p>\n

However, when their mother was notified of her children’s capers, she was shocked, the source said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Apparently, the small scam artists coaxed their victims out of cash with the promise that the funeral homes — and even the Advance — would match any donation made toward a burial.<\/p>\n

The suspects told cops their inspiration for the sick swindle was the Advance’s coverage of the decomposed body of an infant found Sept. 24 inside a plastic shopping bag in the grass of Luis R. Lopez Playground in Clifton, according to the source.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heartless scam artists responsible for bilking Staten Islanders out of hundreds of dollars turn out to be 12 and 14: The search for two scam artists who traded on tall tales about dead relatives and needy families came to an end in West Brighton last night. Not with a whimper, or a high-speed police chase. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-staten_island","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}