Police thwart knifepoint robbery in front of Quad

A University Police officer interrupted an attempted knifepoint robbery in front of the Quadrangle Saturday morning, according to University Police. Police also responded to two armed robbery reports and two burglary reports this weekend. According to Sergeant Lawrence Salotti, a man wearing dark clothing and weighing between 120 and 130 pounds threatened two female students with a knife outside the Quad's 37th Street gate at 1:02 a.m. Saturday. A University Police officer spotted the man, but before he could apprehend him, the man fled into the nearby subway entrance and escaped. Salotti said no one was injured and nothing was stolen. In a separate and unrelated incident, a student was robbed at gunpoint of his Schwinn Bicycle at 3:17 a.m. Saturday on Beige Block. Police said a man wearing a blue jacket and dark cap robbed the student on 41st Street between Locust and Walnut streets. The suspect was described as a 5-foot 7-inch tall man, weighing 130 pounds. He reportedly fled north on 41st Street. University Police responded to a second armed robbery at 1:48 a.m. Saturday. A Drexel University student reported being robbed at the point of a .22 caliber handgun on the 4200 block of Pine Street by two men, one of which was a 6-foot 2-inch, 27- or 28-year-old man with short hair, wearing a black nylon jogging suit, according to Salotti. The unarmed second suspect was described as being six feet tall and was last seen wearing a yellow shirt. Salotti said the man stole a small amount of cash and left the Drexel student unharmed. Two doors of Hollenbach Center, the University's Reserve Officer Training Corps center, were apparently shattered by BB pellets, according to police. Nothing was stolen or tampered with, police said yesterday.

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