Police: Man Held iPhone Hostage for $40 Ransom
Erick Rosales Rojo, 20, of Allentown is charged with theft of mislaid property after finding an iPhone and refusing to turn it over unless he was paid.
An Allentown man is facing two charges after police say he refused to turn over an iPhone he found at the Rave Cinema in Center Valley without compensation. (Subscribe to our Breaking News Alerts, and like us on Facebook to get the news as it happens) According to a criminal complaint, a young woman accidentally left her iPhone at the Rave Cinema on Sept. 7. When she returned to retrieve it, the phone was no longer there. When the woman called her phone, a man, later identified as Erick Rosales Rojo, answered. The complaint goes on to say that the man refused to turn the phone over unless the woman paid him $40. He also requested the woman meet him in Allentown to retrieve the phone. The victim then contacted Upper Saucon police. Posing …
~Veronica
7:35 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
What about a random act of kindness?!? Wouldn't he want his telephone returned if his was lost? Things that make this world a better place..just do what is right! more ›