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Police last week announced the arrest of a minor in connection to a Point Breeze robbery.
On Aug. 13, authorities, who could not release the name of the detained figure because he is a juvenile, revealed him as the likely perpetrator of a July 14 incident. In that matter, first reported in the July 24 South Philly Review as “Demanding the goods,” the complainant was walking toward Broad and Mifflin streets when an unknown male approached her from behind, pointed a gun at her face and demanded “Give me everything you got.”
The woman handed over her wallet, which contained $100, identification, a bank card and a University of Pennsylvania student identification card. The man, whom she described as black, 5-foot-9, having a light complexion, large eyes, a medium build, 200 to 220 pounds, brandishing a small gun and wearing a hoodie or raincoat, fled along the 1800 block of South Carlisle Street. While conducting an investigation, authorities reviewed the suspect’s Facebook page and noticed a picture of a juvenile wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln holding a boombox. The shirt appeared identical to the one worn by the surveillance video-captured individual, whom police said resides in the area of Broad and Mifflin streets.
Shortly after making the connection, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant at his home and arrested him without incident.
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