U. Police arrest two robbery suspects

University Police arrested suspects for two separate robberies that occured at 41st and Pine streets Friday morning and Saturday night, Sergeant Thomas Rambo said yesterday. In the first incident, two men approached a male University student on the 4100 block of Pine Street at 2:38 a.m. Friday. Police said the robbers hit the student with golf clubs and demanded he give them money. The student, who incurred no serious injuries, gave his assailants three dollars in cash. Members of the UPPD Crime Abatement Team, a volunteer police unit, arrested the two suspects nearby shortly afterwards. University Police took the suspects to the West Detectives Division of the Philadelphia Police Department after an initial investigation at UPPD headquarters. In the second incident, a man armed with a knife robbed a University student at 41st and Pine streets at 8:10 p.m. Saturday. The man took three dollars in cash from the student, who was not injured during the robbery. Again, members of the UPPD Crime Abatemant Team arrested the suspect near the scene of the crime shortly afterwards. University Police questioned the suspect and transferred him to West Detectives. In an unrelated incident, University Police arrested a man carrying a gun on the second floor of the Mellon Bank building at 133 South 36th Street at 5:52 p.m. Friday. Police charged the man, who is not affiliated with the University, with a weapons offense for carrying a .38 caliber handgun. In another unrelated incident, police reported a theft at The Gap at 3423 Walnut Street on Friday at 11:16 a.m. Police said between 10 and 20 juveniles fled the store with stacks of unpaid-for jeans. Police arrested two of the juvenile thieves, but the store owner declined to press charges. All of the other thieves remain at large. Police found the man unconscious behind the wheel of a car which had hit a tree on the unit block of South 42nd Street. The man refused hospital treatment for his injuries, which Rambo said were minor. After checking the man's record, police discovered that he is wanted by the Commonwealth. Police also reported the theft of a 1977 model white Toyota automobile from the 200 block of South 36th Street at 3:19 a.m. Friday. In an unrelated incident, University Police officers pursued and arrested one of two boys who robbed a woman at 46th and Market streets at 2:53 p.m. Friday. Rambo said the two boys approached the woman and grabbed the two gold necklaces she was wearing. Rambo said police are uncertain if the woman is affiliated with the University. The boys fled the scene on separate bicycles. University Police spotted one of the boys at 42nd and Spruce streets shortly afterwards and chased him to 47th and Spruce, where they arrested him. The 16-year-old boy was holding a .38 caliber handgun. The second robber is still at large.

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