University Police report local robberies

Two University students were robbed in two separate incidents on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, University Police Lieutenant Susan Holmes said yesterday. The first robbery occurred at 9:05 p.m. on the 4100 block of Locust Street. Holmes said a male student reported being approached by a black male in his 30s, who demanded the student give him money. The student gave the robber $5 from his wallet. The student said the robber was wearing a black jacket and black pants at the time of the robbery. The second robbery occurred at 1:52 a.m. Sunday on the 200 block of South 42nd Street. Holmes said the robber approached a male University student and demanded the student give him the blue blazer he was wearing. The student, who gave the robber his jacket, was uninjured during the incident. The student described his assailant as a dark-complected black man in his 20s, 5'8" tall and of medium build, with close-cropped hair. The robber was last seen wearing a green army jacket, heading southward on 42nd Street from Pine Street. In an unrelated incident, Holmes said a woman fired an unknown number of shots on the 4100 block of Chestnut Street on Saturday at 6:02 p.m. The woman, who is now wanted by the police for firearms violations, fled the scene in an old model small yellow car. She was accompanied by four black males. The woman was described as 5'4" tall, black, of heavy build and was last seen wearing a light blue jacket. In a separate incident, University Police stopped two boys carrying BB guns at Melville Street -- between 45th and 46th Streets -- and Locust Street at 3:13 p.m. last Friday. Police confiscated the guns and released the juveniles into the custody of their guardians. In another separate incident, University Police arrested a previously arrested burglar leaving the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house at 3615 Locust Walk at 5:14 a.m. last Friday. The man was taken to the West Detectives Division of the Philadelphia Police Department for processing. In an unrelated incident, police arrested four men for standing on the roof of their non-University affiliated fraternity house and making indecent gestures at a group of schoolchildren passing below at 3:33 p.m. last Friday. Police identified, warned, and released the men to the president of their fraternity, located at the 4200 block of Spruce Street. The men are all reportedly unaffiliated with the University. Also unrelated, a 1990 Jeep Cherokee was reported stolen from a parking lot near the Palestra at 8:53 last Friday. Also separately, Macintosh computers worth $1700 and $2000 were reported stolen from offices of the Levy Tennis Pavilion and Williams Hall on Friday and Saturday.

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