Robbed At Gunpoint: Cleveland Heights Resident Victimized

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — Police are investigating a pair of armed robberies in Cleveland Heights and University Heights, that officers believe may be connected. In both robberies, two armed men approached residents in their driveways and demanded their wallets and cell phones.

At 9 p.m., University Heights Police got a call from a resident 2400 block of Charney Rd. The woman told police she had been robbed at gunpoint.

Police say the woman was probably followed home, before the suspects robbed her in her driveway. The suspects demanded money and electronics and fled without hurting the woman. The suspects were reportedly driving an older maroon sedan.

At about 9:10 p.m., two armed robbers stole money and electronics from a man on Princeton Road. The victim told police that he pulled into his driveway, at the back of his house, when one of the suspects approached the passenger side window and tapped on the glass with his gun.

Before the man could react, a second suspect approached the driver's side window, with a gun pointed at the man in the car, and said, "Let's not make this harder than it has to be."

The suspects then took the man's cell phone and wallet and asked him if he had more electronics in the house. The man said he had a television on the first floor, but the suspects fled without taking it.

The suspects in both robberies were described as two black men in their 20s, both standing between five-foot-eight-inches and five-foot-eleven-inches. Cleveland Heights Police noted that the suspects in their robbery matched the description of those in the University Heights robbery, according to police records obtained by Patch.

Cleveland Heights Police Chief Annette M. Mecklenburg told Patch her department is in contact with University Heights Police in regards to the robberies, but said she could release no further information at this time.

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