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Teen boater bro busted for trashing amusement park from ‘Big’ with boneheaded pals: cops



A 19-year-old New Jersey knucklehead was charged with sneaking into a historic Westchester County amusement park on a stolen boat and trashing the place with his pals, police said Sunday.

Anthony Conkling of Wykoff, turned himself in to Westchester County cops on Saturday in the Sept. 23 raid on the ritzy waterfront park — with his two buddies now also identified and expected to surrender to police in the coming days, the department said on Facebook.

Anthony Conkling, 19, and his pals allegedly broke into Playland amusement park on Sept. 23 and vandalized it. Westchester County Police Department
Westchester County police said the vandals tried to flip a photo booth onto the beach but couldn’t manage it. Westchester County Police Department

Conkling and his alleged cohorts landed a small boat on the beach outside the Rye park, which was famously featured in the Tom Hanks film “Big,” and climbed a fence to get inside while the county-owned site was closed for the night, police said.

Once inside, the three punks strolled around the park and even got into some of the rides, while cutting and ripping out fiber optic cables, stealing the stuffed animals and even tried to flip a photo booth over the boardwalk raiding and onto the beach — but didn’t have the muscle.

“The damage caused to property at Playland is estimated at $57,000,” police said in a release. “The boat they used was apparently taken from, and returned undamaged to, a boat club in Connecticut.”

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins called the vandalism “infuriating and heartbreaking.

The three vandals stole about 200 stuffed animals from Playland amusement park during the incident. Westchester County Police Department
Westchester County police said all three of the Playland vandals were ID’d and two more will surrender. Westchester County Police Department

“I am angry and deeply disappointed by the actions of the individuals who broke into Playland Park and caused such senseless destruction,” Jenkins said after the incident.

On Sunday, police said the two other suspects, 19- and 20-year-old men, had been identified and were expected to surrender “in the coming days.”

The two were not identified.

Meanwhile, Conkling burglary, trespassing, criminal mischief and petty larceny in the incident.

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