Crime & Safety
Mansfield Man Robbed in Taunton While Trying to Buy Percocet: Police
Police say $1,500 was taken from the man at gunpoint.
MANSFIELD, MA — A Mansfield man who traveled to Taunton to buy black-market Percocet pills was robbed at gunpoint, police said.
The 41-year-old victim told police that he gave the gunman $1,500 and his cell phone after the suspect and an accomplice entered the backseat of his car, according to the Taunton Daily Gazette. A 19-year-old Norton man in the vehicle was also robbed.
The victim told police that the cash was from unemployment insurance.
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Police believe that 19-year-old Jamal I. Alves is the assailant. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
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