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Armless Man Robbed of Cellphone, Police Say

By Nicholas Rizzi | December 7, 2015 12:27pm
 Police are looking for these suspects they said robbed an armless man of his cellphone outside a Staten Island shopping center.
Police are looking for these suspects they said robbed an armless man of his cellphone outside a Staten Island shopping center.
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PORT RICHMOND — An armless man was robbed of his cellphone by a group of people outside a Staten Island shopping center, police said.

The 18-year-old, who was born without limbs, was talking on his cellphone — which he holds with his shoulders and uses his nose to dial — outside the Dunkin Donuts at 1351 Forest Ave. while waiting for a friend about 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 20, according to police and the New York Daily News.

He had placed his phone on a ledge when three people — two men and a woman — approached him and asked him for money, the Daily News reported. 

"I told them no, and they got offended," the victim told the Daily News.

"One of them threatened to go into my pockets."

A fourth person came up from behind, snatched his phone and ran away.

The victim chased after him but was surrounded by the three people who pushed him around and tried to search his pockets for money, according to police and the Daily News.

He eventually got away, police said.

"I guess they just saw me as an easy target," he told the Daily News.