By Jon Schuppe
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN— A man picked up in Central Park for one mugging, instead has been charged with another, police said.
Ramelle Moore, 20, of the Upper West Side, was arrested by officers searching for three suspects who had robbed three men at gunpoint just after midnight on Sunday in the park near 102nd Street and the East Drive.
Armed with a description of the robbers, officers searched the park and surrounding Upper East Side neighborhood. They came across Moore, and stopped him because he resembled the description, police said.
He was charged with illegal possession of a weapon after they found a .38 caliber handgun on him, police said.
Police put him in a line-up for the triple mugging, but he was not identified. Then, they put him in another line-up, this time for a mugging of a 25-year-old woman jogging in the park on Oct. 11. Moore was picked out of that line-up as one of two men involved in the crime, police said.
Police are still searching for the second man involved in that incident, as well as the three men involved in Sunday's mugging.
The NYPD has stepped up patrols of the park after a recent spate of muggings.
Police are also investigating a Nov. 2 mugging in the park in which two men grabbed a 62-year-old man from behind near Traverse Road No. 3 and East Drive just after 7 p.m.
One of the suspects pulled a gun before the duo made off with the man's property, police said.
