Another armed robbery happened near Jamaica Pond on Oct. 4, according to the local District E-13 Police Station.
Meanwhile, police arrested two suspects that same day in a Franklin Park armed robbery and indicated they are being looked at suspects in the earlier Jamaica Pond attacks.
The latest pond-area robbery was reported as happening on the afternoon of Oct. 4 at 511 Jamaicaway, which is near the main entrance to Jamaica Pond Park, at the intersection with Pond Street. No one was injured and the robbers did not manage to take anything, according to emails from Officer Carlos Lara of District E-13’s Community Service Office. The three suspects are described as black or black Hispanic males, about 15-16 years old. One wore a red hooded sweatshirt and another wore tan pants.
It follows two armed robberies on Sept. 24 on the footpath around the pond. In one of those incidents, two robbers tied the victim to a tree while robbing him.
A similar crime occurred on the afternoon of Oct. 4 at the Franklin Park Golf Course. Three robbers attacked a man at knifepoint, forced him into some brush, and bound his hands and feet before robbing him. According to the Boston Police Department, officers spotted suspects matching the description on Chilcott Place in Jamaica Plain. Officers chased the suspects, arrested two in the area of Washington and Boylston streets, while the third suspect got away.
The two suspects arrested in that Franklin Park incident are a 13-year-old juvenile from Dorchester and Rafael Motas-Pena, 21, of Dorchester. Both are charged with assault with intent to murder, kidnapping and armed robbery.
Groups of young criminals robbing people in parks is not just a Jamaica Plain problem. Nearby Mission Hill suffered similar crimes by a group of four robbers in McLaughlin Playground on Oct. 4.
Anyone with information about the JP robberies can contact District E-13 detectives at 617-343-5628 or anonymously by calling 1-800-494-8477 or by texting “TIP” to 27463. Police have increased patrols around the pond with both uniformed and plainclothes officers, according to Lara.
Updated with new information from District E-13.