Post-Breakup Harassment & Phone Smashing Leads To Arrest


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A bad breakup ended up leading to Bristol Township police filing charges against a young man.

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A 20-year-old Bristol Township man was charged last Friday with robbery, criminal mischief, and harassment.

Bristol Township police responded at 5:25 p.m. on Monday, July 13, to a home on Granite Road in Levittown after a woman reported ongoing harassment by her former boyfriend of three years.

The woman told officers she had ended the relationship more than a month earlier, but the suspect continued to call her repeatedly.

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The woman relayed to investigators that she met with the 20-year-old man at his residence on July 11 to discuss the breakup, police said.

During the meeting, the 20-year-old man wrestled her phone away from his ex-girlfriend and held it out of reach before smashing it on his porch using a scooter that belonged to the woman. He then walked off with the scooter, broke it, and threw it into a parking lot, police said.

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The woman informed an officer that the man continued “blowing her phone up” following the encounter.

In a phone conversation, the 20-year-old man allegedly threatened to disconnect her electricity and destroy her home.

Police said the woman also reported seeing the 20-year-old man repeatedly driving by in a BMW.

Shortly after officers responded to Granite Road, a neighbor on nearby Greenbriar Road reported being followed home by a BMW.

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The neighbor, who was sitting outside with her husband, said they heard a car horn sound in front of the house, police said.

When the couple went outside, the BMW sped away from Granite Road and passed the home several times, police said.

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The driver threw a cigarette container out the window at the neighbor’s husband, police said.

The 20-year-old man was preliminarily arraigned and released after posting 10 percent of $25,000 bail.

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