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Authorities arrested a Point Breeze man for allegedly stealing the phone of a woman who had offered to give him a ride.
At 3:45 a.m. Saturday, the complainant was driving to 15th and Reed streets a man whom she had met at an event in Penn’s Landing, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. En route, he called someone, believed to be his child’s mother, and began an argument with her. The witness, who was riding in the front seat, reported she heard a female tell the passenger not to come over or she would call the police.
After hearing the spat, the motorist, who had offered her phone for him to make the call, asked for the gadget back, with the male reportedly saying “What do you think, I’m going to take off with it? Just hold on a second.” When she asked for it again, he allegedly barked “Don’t either of you make any sudden movements. I’m taking your phone and your wallet, or I will shoot both of you.”
The witness reported that she slowly went to hand over her phone to him, with the male supposedly exiting the vehicle to walk to her side of the car. The complainant quickly drove off and called the police from a gas station near Broad and Bainbridge streets. An hour after the incident, police responded to a radio call of a domestic dispute on the 1300 block of South Mole Street, and when they arrived, there was a male inside the home reportedly yelling at a female for calling authorities.
While they spoke with the woman, they realized the male fit the description of a robbery suspect and detained him. The victim and her friend received transport to the location and positively identified him as the culprit. Authorities arrested Khalil Clinton, of the same block, and retrieved the phone for the complainant. They charged him with making terroristic threats, theft-receiving stolen property, theft-unlawful taking and robbery. He had not posted his $50,000 bail as of press time and awaits an Aug. 4 preliminary hearing.
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