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Armed Robbery of Woman in Newark's East Ward Reported

Newark

An early Saturday morning robbery that happened in the city's East Ward has police searching for suspects.

According to reports, a female victim was approached by a male suspect sometime at around 5 a.m. in the area of Delancy and Jefferson Streets on Saturday morning and was ordered to hand over personal possessions at gunpoint.

The suspect was given several items before he fled the scene on foot, then into a vehicle waiting nearby.

Authorities described the suspect as a light-skinned black male who was wearing dark clothing when he fled in a grey 4-door Audi with a reported partial NJ license plate number "FRN". The vehicle fled eastbound on Delancy.

There were no physical injuries immediately reported.

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