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Pepper Spray Yielding Robbery Suspects Strike in Newark

Newark

Police are looking for a group of men wanted in connection with several robberies where the suspects attacked victims with pepper spray late last night.

The attack occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday night in the 200 block of North 5th Street.

According to reports, the suspects – described as five black males last seen wearing all black clothes – approached the victim and sprayed them with pepper spray, before committing the robbery.

The men reportedly committed at least two other robberies shortly before the North 5th Street attack.

None of the victims were seriously injured.

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