Crime & Safety
Armed Robber Using Semi-Automatic Hits Fairless Hills Tobacco Shop
The Falls Township Police Department seeks a woman who got away with cash and lottery tickets after brandishing a handgun Thursday morning.
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA —Police are seeking a woman who walked into a store with a semi-automatic handgun Thursday and fled with cash and lottery tickets.
The Falls Township Police Department said the armed robbery occurred at 8:24 a.m. at Levittown News and Tobacco, 411 South Oxford Valley Rd., Fairless Hills, in the Fairless Hills Shopping Center.
The robber is described as a female, 30's to 40's, with a thin build, and standing approximately 5'6" tall.
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She was dressed in all black, wearing dark-colored sunglasses, green medical gloves, a surgical mask, and carrying blue/purple floral-patterned backpack.
During the course of the robbery, she displayed a black semiautomatic handgun and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash and lottery tickets.
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Anyone with information regarding the subject is asked to contact the assigned investigator, Detective Ronald MacPherson, at (215) 302-3347, or via email at r.macpherson@fallstwppd.com, or anonymously at tiplines@fallstwppd.com.
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