STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A police manhunt overnight on the North Shore ended with a Mariners Harbor man behind bars on armed robbery charges, police said.
Anthony Lopez, 29, was apprehended just after midnight Sunday on Central Avenue in St. George following a nearly hour-long search conducted by the NYPD's Emergency Service and Aviation units, according to a police spokeswoman.
Lopez and three other men are accused of robbing a 27-year-old man at gunpoint on Grant Street in Tompkinsville just before midnight, she said.
Lopez allegedly pointed a firearm at the victim and ordered him to "Give me everything you have," before pistol-whipping him, punching him and kicking him repeatedly in the head, police said.
The four men made off on foot with the victim's Samsung Galaxy phone, the spokeswoman said.
Lopez was arrested around 12:37 a.m. on Central Avenue, following a search that tracked him to a vacant wooded lot between Central Avenue and St. Mark's Place.
He struggled with officers as they attempted to place him in cuffs, provided a false name and was found carrying a hypodermic needle, the spokeswoman said.
Lopez, who has done multiple prison stints and has six other cases on Staten Island currently pending, was charged with first-, second- and third-degree robbery, resisting arrest, possession of a hypodermic instrument and false personation, police said.
None of the three other men who were allegedly with Lopez have been arrested, and it's not clear whether they're in custody or still on the loose, an NYPD spokeswoman said.
-Advance photographer Bill Lyons contributed to this report