Muggers Make Off With Man’s Leg

Muggers tore off a man’s artificial leg as he walked to a deli, leaving him to crawl to a corner for help.

Police arrested three teenagers and a 20-year-old man in the attack Tuesday on 45-year-old John Hammonds, whose brother later found the leg down an embankment on nearby railroad tracks.

The suspects, who were jailed without bail on robbery and assault charges pending a hearing Thursday, also are accused of slashing another man and robbing him of 30 cents.

Hammonds’ attackers punched, kicked and knocked him to the ground in his Bronx neighborhood. They slashed his hand and head with a box cutter before fleeing with the prosthesis.

Hammonds crawled a block and was picked up by an ambulance called by witnesses. He received stitches at a hospital and was released.