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Tourists arrested for false Central Park robbery story
Two tourists from Norway were robbed in Central Park by a knife-wielding man -- or so they told police before their story quickly unraveled Tuesday and they were arrested for filing a false report, police said.
The "victims" reported to police late Monday night that they were near the East Side boathouse when the suspect confronted them at knifepoint.
"Give me the camcorder or I'll kill you," the suspect supposedly said, grabbing it from one of the men, then taking from the duo a ring, a watch, a CD player and some cash before running off. In all, the men told cops they were robbed of more than $2,100 worth of items, police said.
Police who responded to the 11:35 p.m. incident did a quick canvass of the area by the boathouse without finding anything.
About 10 a.m. Tuesday, though, Det. Cheryll Robinson of the 22nd Precinct in Central Park went to The Big Apple Youth Hostel, where the men, Espen Skotterud and Are Kjaer, both 24, were staying. The men were checking out of the midtown hotel and had tickets to go back to Norway Tuesday afternoon, but Robinson asked them to go back to the precinct for more questioning, police said.
That's when their story fell apart.
Detectives found discrepancies in their tale and, eventually, the suspects caved in and confessed, police said. They admitted to concocting the robbery story because they had lost the camcorder and had been told by an insurance company that it reimburses stolen items, but not those that are lost.
Police, meanwhile, said they recovered a Sony CD player, a Nixon watch and a gold ring in their bags. The camera, a Hitachi DVD model worth $1,450, had not been found, police said.
Skotterud and Kjaer, who are friends from the same building in Oslo, had been on a 10-day U.S. tour that took them to Las Vegas and California. Last night, they were awaiting arraignment
ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and ANTHONY PARDO
STAFF WRITERS
June 29, 2005
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Tourists arrested for false Central Park robbery story
Two tourists from Norway were robbed in Central Park by a knife-wielding man -- or so they told police before their story quickly unraveled Tuesday and they were arrested for filing a false report, police said.
The "victims" reported to police late Monday night that they were near the East Side boathouse when the suspect confronted them at knifepoint.
"Give me the camcorder or I'll kill you," the suspect supposedly said, grabbing it from one of the men, then taking from the duo a ring, a watch, a CD player and some cash before running off. In all, the men told cops they were robbed of more than $2,100 worth of items, police said.
Police who responded to the 11:35 p.m. incident did a quick canvass of the area by the boathouse without finding anything.
About 10 a.m. Tuesday, though, Det. Cheryll Robinson of the 22nd Precinct in Central Park went to The Big Apple Youth Hostel, where the men, Espen Skotterud and Are Kjaer, both 24, were staying. The men were checking out of the midtown hotel and had tickets to go back to Norway Tuesday afternoon, but Robinson asked them to go back to the precinct for more questioning, police said.
That's when their story fell apart.
Detectives found discrepancies in their tale and, eventually, the suspects caved in and confessed, police said. They admitted to concocting the robbery story because they had lost the camcorder and had been told by an insurance company that it reimburses stolen items, but not those that are lost.
Police, meanwhile, said they recovered a Sony CD player, a Nixon watch and a gold ring in their bags. The camera, a Hitachi DVD model worth $1,450, had not been found, police said.
Skotterud and Kjaer, who are friends from the same building in Oslo, had been on a 10-day U.S. tour that took them to Las Vegas and California. Last night, they were awaiting arraignment
ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and ANTHONY PARDO
STAFF WRITERS
June 29, 2005
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