Crime & Safety

Police Report Roxborough Stick-Up

Man robbed in his car earlier in December.

Two men held up a Roxborough resident at gunpoint in midnight, police said.

At midnight Dec. 13 a man was in his car at Mitchell Street and Shurs Lane. He reached into the back of the 2003 Toyota Matrix when two men approached him.

One man pointed a snub nose revolver and demanded his money, which was $72.

He gave them the money and they fled on foot. No injuries were reported.

Philadelphia Police did not release detailed descriptions of the assailants.

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