Investigators said that in all five of the incidents on Dec. 12, at least one suspect approached a person, pointed a rifle at the victim and then fled in a silver SUV or pickup truck. <\/p>\n
Armed suspects steal cash, electronics from Philly residents<\/p>\n
Police said that around 5:44 a.m. on Dec. 12, a man was sitting in his car when two men allegedly approached him with a rifle and demanded money on the 2500 block of Emery Street in Port Richmond.<\/p>\n
The suspects got away with an iPhone, two iPads and an unknown amount of cash, officials explained. <\/p>\n
In a second incident, a woman was at an ATM on the 4700 block of Rising Sun Avenue in North Philly around 6 a.m. when two people approached her, showed they were carrying a rifle and took cash from her, police said. <\/p>\n
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Attempted robberies target Philadelphia residents<\/p>\n
Just after midnight on Dec. 12, a woman was driving along the 2500 block of Clearfield Street in Port Richmond when a silver pickup pulled in front of her and blocked her path, police said. <\/p>\n
A person allegedly got out of the truck and pointed a rifle through the woman’s driver’s side window while demanding that she open her car doors, according to police. <\/p>\n
The woman told the person that she didn’t have any money on her, put her car in reverse and drove away, officials explained. <\/p>\n
Police reported that the suspect got back into the pickup and drove away without taking anything from the woman. <\/p>\n
In a second attempted robbery on Dec. 12, a woman was walking up the steps to her home on the 800 block of East Thompson Street in Fishtown around 2:47 a.m. when a man wearing all black clothing and a face mask approached her, police said. <\/p>\n
The masked man pointed a rifle at her and she pushed him away before running into her house, according to police. The suspect got into a light-colored SUV and drove away without taking anything. <\/p>\n
Then, on the 1000 block of East Palmer Street in Fishtown a man was sitting in his car around 6:17 a.m. when a person armed with a rifle approached him, police reported. <\/p>\n
Officials said that the man resisted the suspect, grabbed the gun and pushed it away before the suspect ran away without taking anything. <\/p>\n
As of Friday night, police said that they do not know if any these incidents are related. <\/p>\n
If you have any information on these robberies, please contact the East Detective Division at 215-686-3243.<\/p>\n
You can also leave an anonymous tip by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A string of armed robberies and attempted robberies targeted residents in several Philadelphia neighborhoods on Friday morning, according…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-443660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115710124267360154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}