CELL PHONE JROBBERY STOPPED AT GUN POINT !
Stroudsburg, Monroe County [(Pennsylvania]– An armed store employee helped stop a robbery at the Stroud Mall in Monroe County. It started on Craigslist. One person arranged to sell a cell phone to someone in front of the mall. The internet buyer turned out to be a robber who violently tried to steal the phone.
The person selling the phone followed all the usual internet safety advice. They arranged to meet in the middle of the day, in a public place, with lots of people around. Yet, they still got robbed. Shopper Skylar Shepp of Tobyhanna reacted, "Craigslist just creeps me out in general 'cause it's like you don't know these people so you don't know what they are capable of or anything like that."
Stroud Area Regional Police Captain Brian Kimmins said it happened Tuesday afternoon in front of the main entrance to the mall. The robber attacked the person selling the phone with an electric device. Kimmins explained, "It's like a tazer. It's a nine volt battery operated stun gun and started applying it to the victim, took the phone and ran."
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