Crime & Safety
Armed Robbery: i-Phone Seller Held at Gunpoint
The incident took place Feb. 3, according to the Woodridge Police Department.
A 25-year-old man from Richton Park has been charged with armed robbery after say he held a person selling refurbished iPhones at gunpoint.
Laurence Smith, 25, from the 22000 block of Latonia Lane, was arrested around 7:40 p.m. Feb. 3.
Smith contacted the iPhone seller on Craigslist and the pair arranged to meet for the transaction in the parking lot of Sam's Club, 7300 Woodward, Ave., police said. Instead of paying, Smith held the iPhone seller at gunpoint and took the box of phones, leaving the scene in a car without license plates.
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Smith's car was later found at a Chicago address, where he was apprehended.
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