If you want to learn the basics of riding your bike in the city, come to The Coffee Ride this Saturday, June 23. The event is hosted by Keswick Cycle and Green Line Cafe and will start at 10:15 a.m. at Keswick Cycle (4040 Locust) with a skills clinic. You will learn everything from hand signals to how to properly lock a bike and everything in between. After the skills clinic you will go on a short ride (about 6 miles) through the city to practice the skills you went over in the clinic. The ride will end at Green Line Cafe at 43rd and Baltimore with a relaxing cup of coffee and sweet treats.
Torin Myer (Photo from Philadelphia Police Department)
Police have charged a 23-year-old man in connection with the recent string of armed robberies at two Green Line Cafe locations and the Chipotle Mexican Grill near 39th and Walnut.
Torin Myer of the 3900 block of Baring Street was apprehended early yesterday near 34th and Hamilton, a few blocks from the Drexel University campus. Police said he is not a student.
Police say Myer was exiting a convenience store and getting on a bicycle near 34th and Hamilton when Drexel University police Captain Fred Carbonara apprehended him. Myer had a BB gun, a knife, gloves and ski mask in his possession. Carbonara recognized Myer from the surveillance video made public last week.
“We had the area saturated yesterday,” said Detective Joe Murray from the Southwest Detectives. “There was no way he was going to be able to walk around without getting caught. Just wish we had him sooner.”
Murray said Myer confessed to all four robberies.
Myer lived about four blocks from the Green Line Cafe at 3649 Lancaster Ave., which police say he robbed on April 30 and again on May 4. He is charged with robbery, assault and weapons charges in connection to those two robberies, one on April 26 at the Green Line Cafe near 45th and Locust and the May 6 robbery at the Chipotle Mexican Grill at 3925 Walnut St.
Police say Myer suffered from a “drug problem,” which in part explained his motives in the robberies.
Police have confirmed that a “person of interest” has been detained in connection with the robbery spree over the last two weeks at two Green Line Cafe locations and the Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Rumors began circulating this afternoon that police had caught the so-called “Green Line robber.”
“There is a person of interest that we are speaking with,” said Lt. John Walker of the Southwest Detectives. Another police source said that warrants will soon be issued in the case. “It’s him,” the source said.
The Green Line Cafe on Lancaster Avenue was robbed again late Friday afternoon, police have confirmed. Police believe that the suspect is “definitely the same person” who robbed the same cafe earlier this week and the Green Line at 45th and Locust on April 26.
This time the man was wearing a green Army jacket, dirty blue jeans and black sneakers with white soles. The suspect is a white male in his mid 20′s, 5’9″ tall, medium build, brown hair and a thin mustache.
You can see surveillance video of the suspect from the robbery earlier this week here.
If you have any information about this person, please contact the Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183, 215-476-1131, or 215-686-TIPS.
Police today released surveillance video of the Green Line Cafe robbery suspect. The robbery occurred on Monday, April 30 at the Green Line cafe located at 3649 Lancaster Avenue. A man wearing a black ski mask entered the cafe, pointed a handgun at the cashier and demanded the money from the register. The suspect is seen on the video before entering the cafe without the mask and then fleeing the scene after the robbery.
This person is also a suspect in a robbery at the Green Line Cafe at 45th & Locust on April 26.
The suspect is described as a white male, in his mid 20’s, 5’9″ tall, medium build, brown hair, a thin mustache, grey hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and armed with a black, semi-automatic handgun.
If you have any information about this person, please contact the Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183, 215-476-1131, or 215-686-TIPS.
A masked man robbed the Green Line Cafe in Powelton at gunpoint yesterday. The robbery is the second at a Green Line in the past week.
Police said the man entered the cafe on Lancaster Avenue near 36th Street at about 4:20 p.m. and fled on foot with about $500. The man is described as white, about 5’10” and wearing a grey hoodie, philly.com reported.
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