Crime & Safety
Arrests Made in Early Morning Robbery at Gunpoint
Those arrested are also suspected in another robbery in Cleveland last week.
Two 17-year-old boys and a 20-year-old Cleveland man were arrested and charged with robbery following an early morning stick-up in the 2000 block of Bunts Road at around 1:30 a.m. April 2.
The victim was walking north on Bunts Road when he was robbed at gunpoint, he told police, by three men and a woman.
“Two males struck him and showed a gun,” said Lakewood Police Chief Timothy Malley, “then took his wallet.”
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Police caught up with all four of them at the intersection of Brown and Athens avenues less than an hour later. The man later found the contents of his wallet along Bunts Road, but police were unable to locate any weapons.
Arrested were two 17-year-old boys — one from Lakewood and another from Cleveland — and a 20-year-old Cleveland man.
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Malley said those charged in the Lakewood incident are also suspects in a robbery on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland last week.
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