FORNEY, Texas — A 19-year-old man was arrested in connection with an armed robbery of a woman attempting to sell a phone on a buy/sell app in Forney yesterday.
FORNEY, Texas — A 19-year-old man was arrested in connection with an armed robbery of a woman attempting to sell a phone on a buy/sell app in Forney yesterday.
According to the Forney Police Department, the Dallas Police Department arrested 19-year-old Steven Warren Daniels Jr. on an outstanding robbery warrant from a separate incident which occurred in Mesquite.
Daniels was later identified as the suspect in the Forney incident on Wednesday morning in which Daniels allegedly displayed a handgun and stole a phone from a woman he was meeting, arranged through the buy/sell app “Let Go,” in the 600 block of Tumbleweed Drive.
In addition to the Mesquite charges, Daniels is facing a first-degree felony aggravated robbery charge from the Forney Police Department for which he is being held on a $150,000 bond.
“As a reminder, if citizens are using selling apps that require the seller and buyer to meet, we encourage these transactions to be made in a public place,” the department stated in a press release on Wednesday following the incident.
“We would like to thank the Dallas and Mesquite Police Departments who assisted in this investigation and to the citizens who provided information related to the case,” stated the department.
