An Upper Darby man has been charged with robbing a Ridley Township smoke shop.<\/p>\n
Xavier Franklin, 34, has been charged with robbery, carrying a firearm without a license, theft, receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, simple assault and unlawful restraint.<\/p>\n
According to Ridley Township police Lt. John Hamill:<\/p>\n
Just before 8 p.m. Monday a male walked into the Empire Smoke Shop, 1418 Chester Pike, pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded the cash from the register.<\/p>\n
The employee complied and the worker was then ordered to a back room and locked in as the robber took additional items, placed the handgun in his right pocket and fled the store.<\/p>\n
Eddystone Officer Chase Smith heard the description of the suspect and stopped a male walking at 12th and Melrose in Chester.<\/p>\n
Police detained the man, then identified as Franklin. In his pockets they found cash, hemp products, some already opened and a firearm.<\/p>\n
The store employee was brought to the location where he identified Franklin as the robber. Ridley police then took Franklin into custody.<\/p>\n
Franklin was arraigned before District Judge Michael F. Culp, who set bail at 10 percent of $350,000, which Franklin was unable to post. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Dec. 8 before District Judge George B. Dawson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upper Darby man has been charged with robbing a Ridley Township smoke shop. Xavier Franklin, 34, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,26996,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-45559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upper-darby","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-delaware-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-ridley-township","14":"tag-top-stories-dtd","15":"tag-upper-darby","16":"tag-upper-darby-headlines","17":"tag-upper-darby-news","18":"tag-upper-darby-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559","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=45559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}