Crime & Safety

Woman Robbed with Her Own Pepper Spray

The robber stole the woman's iPhone in The Orchards neighborhood.

A robber stole a woman’s pepper spray and pointed it at her during a robbery in The Orchards.

According to Baltimore police, at 6:40 a.m., Friday, a woman was walking in the 5500 block of North Charles Street when a robber, who was following the woman in a car, got out and attacked her.

The robber managed to take the woman’s pepper spray, pointed it at her and demanded her iPhone.

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The woman complied and the robber got back into the car and drove south on Charles Street.

The woman was uninjured. 

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