Crime News
Daytime Robbery Scares Main Street Shop Owner
“If they’re going to do something like that in broad daylight, what are they going to do at night?" asks shopkeeper neighbor of robbery victim.
When Darlene Yost and her daughter Briana started planning to open a woman’s boutique in Bethlehem, they thought first of a storefront on the SouthSide because they were aiming for young clientele. However, Mrs. Yost had second thoughts about safety in South Bethlehem after a late 2010 rash of burglaries and robberies in which a street gang targeted Lehigh University students. So Briana’s Boutique @ Five Twenty opened at 520 Main St. in the Historic North Side Downtown. But on Thursday, as the shop celebrated a successful one-year anniversary with a grand opening and ribbon cutting with Mayor John Callahan, Mrs. Yost was again concerned. The day before, armed robbers pulled off a brazen mid-day heist at Dancing Designs Jewelry, just a …
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slyfox
11:54 am on Friday, July 27, 2012
Crime spreads like a cancer. There are some people who have no respect. Have no morals. Have nothing. So they take thereby giving themselves something. Something that doesn't belong to them nor that they earned. Need to gather up these thieves and toss them in jail where they need to stay. How frightening. I am sorry this happened. more ›