Crime & Safety
Robbers Use Car, Target North Baltimore Residents
The robberies occurred in three different neighborhoods.
A man robbed of his iPhone in Hampden makes it a total of three people who had their cellphones stolen by robbers who took the property after exiting from a car.
According to Baltimore police reports, all three people had their cellphones stolen in the early morning hours Friday, after robbers pulled up near them and exited a car.
At 7:30 a.m., in the 3400 block of Beech Avenue, the robbers approached a man after getting out of a car and took the man’s iPhone.
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About a half hour before, robbers pulled up behind a woman in the 5500 block of North Charles Street, and one of them took her pepper spray, threatened her and then stole her iPhone.
Before that, at about 6:15 a.m., a woman was attacked in the 4800 block of Roland Avenue and stole her cellphone. She also told police that she believed one of the robbers was carrying a Taser.
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