FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (Somerset County) — Two Somerset teens accused of mugging a restaurant delivery man Friday evening were quickly caught after police tracked their footprints and found them at home eating food stolen from the victim, authorities said. According to Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano, the 17-year-old suspects, who were not named by authorities because they are underage, allegedly...
Two Somerset teens are accused of robbing a delivery man at Fisher Drive and Lyon Lane in Franklin Township of Somerset County.FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (Somerset County) — Two Somerset teens accused of mugging a restaurant delivery man Friday evening were quickly caught after police tracked their footprints and found them at home eating food stolen from the victim, authorities said.
According to Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano, the 17-year-old suspects, who were not named by authorities because they are underage, allegedly robbed the delivery man at knifepoint around 7 p.m. on Fisher Drive. They not only took the man’s cash but also the Chinese food he had been carrying, Soriano said.
Authorities have withheld the name of the 32-year-old victim.
Franklin Township patrol officers were able to track the teens by following two sets of footprints in the snow in the direction they fled, Soriano said.
Officers also traced a phone number that had been used to place the order the delivery man had been carrying, authorities said, which led them to a residence on Taylor Drive.
According to Soriano, the teens were found inside eating food that matched what was stolen, and the arrest was made after the victim identified them as the suspects.
The teens were charged with first-degree robbery and taken to the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center.
Anyone with information about the robbery should call the Franklin Township police at (732) 873-5533, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit at (908) 231-7100 or the Somerset County Crime Stoppers tip line at 1 (888) 577-TIPS (8477).