Police: Teens Flee After Assault, Cause Delays On Metro-North New Haven Line

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad was delayed Wednesday evening, after some teens suspected in an attack on another boy ran off along the tracks.

Around 5:45 p.m., Mamaroneck police received a 911 call about the assault of a 15-year-old boy on Andrew Street near the Mamaroneck train station, police said.

Police believe a group of about 15 teenagers surrounded the boy, assaulted him and took his cellphone, police said. He suffered minor injuries, police said.

The boy did not know his assailants, police said.

An officer was talking to the mother of the victim, and saw several possible suspects run off in multiple directions, police said. Some of them ran right down the northbound train tracks, police said.

The power was shut off from the New Rochelle station to the Harrison station late Wednesday while police searched for the trespassers, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told CBS2.

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The Westchester County Aviation Unit was also called to the scene, police said.

Some commuters issued tweets suggesting that the trespassers who caused the delays might have been playing the popular scavenger hunt adventure game Pokémon Go on the tracks, but that turned out not to be true.

Several suspects from New Rochelle were apprehended, and charges were pending, police said.