An Upper Darby man has been charged with robbery in the township.<\/p>\n
Leonardo V. Mena Rodas, 37, was charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, simple assault, possession of an instrument of crime, possession of drug paraphernalia and public drunkenness.<\/p>\n
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said the victim was approached by a male who appeared intoxicated in the 200 block of Garrett Road on Saturday about 12:45 a.m. and displayed what the victim thought was a weapon. The thief took about $80 and some personal items and fled.<\/p>\n
Arriving police got the description from the victim and relayed it to other officers.<\/p>\n
Police spotted a pedestrian nearby who fit the description and stopped him. The victim identified Mena Rodas as the robber. He was not carrying a weapon, it was a lighter.<\/p>\n
Bernhardt credited alert police for quickly getting a description of the suspect and transmitting it to fellow officers who spotted the suspect leading to the arrest.<\/p>\n
Mena Rodas was arraigned before District Judge Benjamin Johns who set bail at 10 percent of $150,000. Rodas was unable to post bail and so taken to Delaware County prison to await a scheduled May 7 preliminary hearing in front of Judge Johns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upper Darby man has been charged with robbery in the township. Leonardo V. Mena Rodas, 37, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-171881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}