Five men who thought they were going to meet a woman from an online dating site were instead robbed by men with knives and other weapons, police said Sunday.
The men were lured to a building on Park Avenue in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, the NYPD said, while a sixth, not lured by the dating site, was robbed at another building nearby.
Instead of finding 20-year-old "Nessa Love," five of the six victims were confronted by two to three men who robbed them, according to police.
The men were robbed between Dec. 7 and Jan. 23. In some cases, the victims were threatened with knives, a baseball bat, or simulated guns. They lost phones, wallets, thousands of dollars, and in one case, an electric scooter.
Two of the suspects have since been arrested, but one of the attackers remains at large, police said.
Nathaniel Baptiste, 23, of the Bronx, was charged with robbery, false impersonation and other charges. George Livermoore, 32, of Queens, was charged with robbery.
Baptiste and Livermoore were arrested by officers who pursued them after the sixth robbery, police said. It wasn't clear if the two men had attorneys.
Police said they're looking for a man between 25 and 30 years old who's about 6 feet tall with short, curly hair and a heavy beard.
Police were also looking for 16-year-old Janessia Roberts, whose online dating accounts were used to lure five of the victims.
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