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Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Police report two gunpoint robberies

A University student reported being robbed at gunpoint early Monday morning, University Police Lieutenant Susan Holmes said yesterday. the student was reportedly robbed at 1:20 that morning on teh 4400 block of Larchwood Road by two males brandishing a gun, Holmes said. The student, who was not hurt in the incident, told the University Police that the two males took about $20, credit cards and the student's University ID, she added. In an unrelated incident, a Drexel University student reported being robbed at gunpoint just after midnight Saturday, Holmes said. She said the student was robbed of his bookbag while on the 3200 block of Market Street. Holmes said the student was not injured. In another unrelated incident, Holmes said unknown persons burglarized the University's Admissions Office, in the lower level of College Hall, sometime between Saturday and early Monday morning, stealing a computer valued at $3800. Workers in the Admissions Office reported the burglary just after 8 a.m. Monday, after noticing that the computer was missing and a window had been broken. In another unrelated incident, Holmes said two males attempted to rob a woman of her purse Friday evening outside Eden Restaurant which is located in the 3700 block of Chesnut Street. According to Holmes, the woman resisted the male's effort to wrestle her purse from her just after 5 p.m., causing them to flee north towards 38th Street. She said the woman, who is not affiliated with the University, was not injured. In another unrelated incident, Holmes said a girl who had run away from home turned herself into University Police. She said the girl's parents traveled to Philadelphia from their home in Newark, Del. to pick up their daughter.