Boston police are searching for two suspects accused of robbing a children’s lemonade stand at gunpoint in South Boston Wednesday afternoon, the department announced. <\/p>\n
Boston police responded to a radio call reporting an armed robbery on West Ninth Street at approximately 4:44 p.m. Before officers arrived, they received a description of two juvenile male suspects who fled on foot down the street in the direction of Dorchester Street. They said one of the two suspects was observed displaying a black firearm in his waistband at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they located the victims, two children who had been operating a lemonade stand. The victims told police that the suspects walked by the stand several times before approaching and asking whether they accepted Apple Pay as payment. <\/p>\n
Before the victims could respond, one suspect grabbed a box filled with the money they had earned before they both took off from the scene.<\/p>\n
The father of the victims spoke with 7NEWS about the harrowing incident. <\/p>\n
“One of them said, ‘we don’t have any money, but we’re going to see if my mother will Venmo me the money so I can pay for it.’ Next thing you know, they came back and said, ‘we’re just going to take this,’ and they took my son’s and daughter’s – their money, bank that they had all their cash in,” the victims’ father said. “And as they did that they flashed a gun that they had in their waistband. This is appaling, this is grotesque. This is something that should not happen to young kids, we’re just having a lemonade stand. Can’t have a gun and can’t be robbing lemonade stands. It’s as easy as that.”<\/p>\n
The victim’s father said they found the cash box a short distance away, but there was no money inside.<\/p>\n
Neither suspect has been identified.<\/p>\n
No arrests have yet been made. <\/p>\n
This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Source: News \u2013 Boston \u2013 whdh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston police are searching for two suspects accused of robbing a children’s lemonade stand at gunpoint in South Boston Wednesday afternoon, the department announced. Boston…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15152579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15152480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-620x349.jpg",620,349,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-940x529.jpg",940,529,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed.jpg",1280,720,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed.jpg",1280,720,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15152480-southie-lemonade-stand-robbed-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"Boston<\/a>","tag_info":"Boston","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15152480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152481,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152480\/revisions\/15152481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15152579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15152480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15152480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15152480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}