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Police Investigating Armed Robbery on West State Street
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Ithaca Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred on the 900 block of West State Street on Nov. 2, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/robbery/)
Ithaca Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred on the 900 block of West State Street on Nov. 2, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release.
Upon arrival at the store, which is located at 210 S. Cayuga Street, the officers confirmed that a robbery occurred. The suspect allegedly demanded money from the cash registers and implied that he was armed, the release stated.
Early Friday morning, the Cornell University Police Department responded to a report of an armed robbery near Uris Library on Ho Plaza, where suspects brandished a gun and took the belongings of two Cornell students. The robbery was reported at 2:49 a.m., according to the press release.
Two separate robberies plagued Tompkins County in the last week, one at a Tops gas station on Saturday and one at the Tompkins Trust Company on Wednesday. Both are located on Triphammer Road.
This is not the first time the South Meadow branch was robbed in the last year.
Ithaca police responded to two separate robbery cases last week and arrested two men on Thursday responsible for stealing from the Elmira Savings Bank on South Meadow Road and from a 71-year-old female.
There are many aspects to “adulting” that I’ve learned over the past two years since my acceptance to Cornell. I applied for a student visa and traveled alone on a plane for the first time, set up and started managing my own bank account, signed my first housing contract with a landlord, got my first paid job, began to shop for groceries and cook regularly — the list could go on. I thought that achieving such milestones allowed me to become one step closer to adulthood, that I had done a pretty good job of making it through these rites of passage. I was completely wrong. One thing that I had discarded was a sense of concern for safety.
Police arrested a 32-year-old Ithaca resident and accused him of conducting a string of armed robberies in a one-week period in December.
The victims said two men wearing masks and carrying “long guns” forced their way into an apartment and one of the men struck a victim with the butt of the gun and stole property from the victims.
Ithaca Police officers arrested a man Tuesday night after he allegedly attempted to take a backpack off of a passerby’s back.