Man arranges meeting with woman, robbed at gunpoint
Posted May 07, 2016 7:00 am
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A man was robbed at gunpoint after he agreed to meet a woman with whom he chatted online.
The Rockford Register Star reports (http://bit.ly/1WR1vy8 ) the man told police he went to a house Friday night thinking he was going to meet a woman who called herself Mercedes.
He had met the person on a dating website and arranged to meet her at the address about 9 p.m.
No one answered the door when the man arrived. As he turned around, two men confronted him with a semiautomatic handgun and forced him to the ground.
They took his wallet and cellphone and fled on foot.
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Information from: Rockford Register Star, http://www.rrstar.com
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