Allentown police arrested two men Tuesday afternoon after they robbed a woman at gunpoint in the city\u2019s downtown, stealing money and her cell phone, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
In a news release, police said an Allentown patrol officer saw two men wearing face masks and black clothing in the area of South Eighth and Maple streets around 3:30 p.m. When they saw the officer\u2019s marked police car, the two men ran away, police said.<\/p>\n
As they were running, witnesses reported that the two men had just robbed a woman near a bank on North Eighth Street.<\/p>\n
Patrol officers chased the men, and when they were caught, the officers found both to be in possession of handguns, one of which was stolen. They also had the victim\u2019s stolen cash and phone, police said.<\/p>\n
Jahniel Perez-Matos, 20, of Nutley, New Jersey, and Alex Aracena Polanco, 20, of Deer Park, New York, both were charged with robbery, theft, carrying a concealed firearm without a license and evading arrest.<\/p>\n
Perez-Matos also was charged with person not to possess a firearm and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown police arrested two men Tuesday afternoon after they robbed a woman at gunpoint in the city\u2019s downtown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-249503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249503","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=249503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}