Credit: Falls Township police
A 22-year-old Falls Township woman was arrested last week after an alleged robbery.
Victoria M. Wilbon was charged last Thursday with conspiracy to commit robbery, attempted aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, theft, and receiving stolen property.
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Falls Township police said in court papers that officers were dispatched to the Village of Pennbrook Apartments on Mill Creek Road for a report of an armed subject last Thursday around 4 p.m. The call to 9-1-1 was terminated by the caller and the person dialed back a short time later stating they had been robbed.
Based on information from the caller, multiple marked and unmarked police units conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle along Lincoln Highway at Lincoln Circle just before 4:30 p.m. Wilbon was taken into custody, police said.
The caller and a man who was with him relayed to officers that they arrived at the Village of Pennbrook complex to sell a pair of sneakers after making an agreement online with a man, who police later said as a juvenile. The juvenile took two pair of sneakers – valued at $500 and $700 – and jumped into the back seat of a car driven by Wilbon, police said.
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One the shoe sellers hung onto the vehicle Wilbon was driving as she backed out. At that point, the juvenile got out of the car and brandished a knife and slashed it as Wilbon sped away, police said.
The juvenile was reported to have fled the area on foot before police arrived.
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Wilbon was arraigned by District Judge Mick Petrucci and jailed on 10 percent of $100,000 bail.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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