A 16-year-old girl has been arrested over the brazen mugging of a woman that was thwarted by a “hero” doorman on the Upper East Side earlier this month, police said Friday.
The teen, whose name was not released because she is a minor, was busted Thursday morning and charged with robbery for the Feb. 4 broad-daylight attack at the intersection of Madison Avenue and East 75th Street.
The girl and a male accomplice ganged up on a 24-year-old woman, putting her in a headlock, pulling her hair and knocking her to the ground as they grabbed her cellphone and tried to snatch her purse, according to police and a local report.
At one point, the brutes pinned the victim against the glass of a nearby building lobby — catching the eye of a doorman inside, ABC7 reported last week .
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“I heard like a thump. She hit the glass with her face,” the doorman, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the outlet. “And when I looked up, our eyes kind of met and all she said [was], ‘Help.’”