Two Charged With Robbing, Terrorizing La Salle Students Last September
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Arraignment is expected later this week for two men indicted yesterday in two home invasion robberies of La Salle University students -- whom investigators say were targeted by mistake.
Levi Rivers and Paul Wright are charged with robbing and terrorizing students in two homes on successive nights last September. But according to the indictment, the defendants actually went to the wrong properties in their search for the intended target, a man they believed to be a drug dealer.
Philadelphia prosecutor Will Weiland says Rivers and Wright went to a home on North 18th Street last September 6th.
"They told that resident they were owed money," Weiland recounts. "He couldn't provide them with any information or what they were looking for, so they took some items from him and then they left."
But the next night, they allegedly victimized four students -- robbing and threatening them and evenutally kidnapping two of them and forcing them to withdraw money from an ATM machine.
None of the victims was physically injured.
The defendants were originally charged by Philadelphia police, but the feds have taken over the case.
Reported by Tony Hanson, KYW Newsradio 1060.
