A recent string of robberies may be connected and part of an online dating scam, according to the Gainesville Police Department. Law enforcement officials received a call about a robbery at the University Commons apartment complex Wednesday afternoon. According to officers, the victim says he responded to an ad online and when he arrived at the complex he was confronted by two men with a knife. Investigators believe that there are other victims who haven't reported the same thing happening to them, and officers want those people to come forward. If you have any information on the robberies, you are urged to call the Gainesville Police Department's Detective Division at Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File.
Man shot, robbed in online dating scheme
Man shot, robbed in online dating scheme
A group of people catfished men in an online dating scam. Police say they lured the men in with the promise of a girl named Nessa Love, then robbed them. Wale Aliyu reports. Five men who thought they were going to meet a woman from an online dating site were instead robbed by men with knives and other weapons, police said Sunday. The men were lured to a building on Park Avenue in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, the NYPD said, while a sixth, not lured by the dating site, was robbed at another building nearby. The men were robbed between Dec.
String of robberies connected to online dating scam, says GPD
Police say the victim met a female online and brought her to his home. Soon after, three men showed up to the home and robbed the victim at gunpoint. Police arrested one of three suspects, Marquail Johnson. Deonte Battle and Marqus Vance have warrants for their arrest on robbery first degree. They wound up taking some vehicle keys but did not take the vehicle.
Investigators said Branden Lerma, 19, and an unnamed year-old boy, would jump out of the bushes and into the car where Chhoker and the victims were. The three then robbed the victims and took off, leaving the injured dates behind, investigators said. This happened in April and again in June, with the same modus operandi both times.
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