The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating two armed robberies that happened overnight at massage parlors in Chinatown.<\/p>\n
According to police, the first robbery happened at 1 a.m. on Saturday, May 16, at a business located on the 200 block of North 12th Street. The second robbery occurred just three hours later, at 4 a.m., at a business on the 100 block of North 10th Street.<\/p>\n
Police did not say whether they think the two robberies are related.<\/p>\n
Robbery on North 12th Street<\/p>\n
According to police, three male suspects were let into the property by the victim, and then they forced themselves by pushing the victim out of the way once inside.<\/p>\n
Officials said the suspects took an undisclosed amount of money and left the scene. One of the suspects was armed with a gun.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made in connection with this robbery.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Robbery on North 10th Street<\/p>\n
Five suspects, three men and two women, forced their way into the business, according to police. Officials also said that four of the suspects were armed.<\/p>\n
According to police, the suspects took an undisclosed amount of cash and cellphones.<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old woman sustained a cut to the right side of her face, police said. She was transported by a private vehicle to Jefferson University Hospital where she was treated and released.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
This investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating two armed robberies that happened overnight at massage parlors in Chinatown. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12063,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-194404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chinatown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194404","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=194404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}