Police urge residents to use stations for Facebook Marketplace transactions
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - A man was trying to sell his iPad to make a few extra bucks through Facebook Marketplace when he was pepper sprayed and robbed by two women last Friday, January 17th.
The meeting took place in a business parking lot around 7 p.m. at 3351 SW 3rd Street in Lee’s Summit.
After handing the iPad over and trying to conduct the sale through Venmo one of the women grabbed the man’s arm and pepper sprayed him in the face, according to court documents.
While being pepper sprayed, the other woman began driving, dragging the man through the parking lot. The woman on the enger side of the car began hitting the man in the face, pepper spraying him again, causing him to drop his phone in the car before the alleged thieves drove out of the parking lot.
The court documents also say security footage from a business nearby showed some of the altercation.
Suffering from multiple injuries the man was taken to the hospital, and his girlfriend used GPS to locate the phone he dropped in the thief’s car.
Police located the suspects, the driver and the enger, Daqrtiona Rollins, and tried to stop them at a gas station in Kansas City. They led police on a chase that ended in their arrest in Kansas. During a search of the vehicle, they recovered pepper spray and a handgun.
During interviews with police, the suspects itted to stealing other items after negotiating to meet up with sellers through Facebook Marketplace in Kansas City, Independence, Overland Park and Lee’s Summit.
“These individuals were involved in several robberies, a couple here in Overland Park,” Overland Park Police PIO John Lacy said.
Police in the greater Kansas City area recommend doing online transactions in their parking lots. Below is a list of some of those parking lot locations.
KD Locations:
- Central Patrol 1200 E Linwood, Kansas City, MO
- Metro Patrol 7601 Prospect, Kansas City, MO
- East Patrol 2601 Prospect, Kansas City, MO
- North Patrol 1100 NW Prairie View, Kansas City, MO
- South Patrol 9701 Marion Park Dr, Kansas City, MO
- Shoal 6801 NE Pleasant Valley, Kansas City, MO
- Overland Park PD 12400 Foster St, Overland Park, KS
- Lee’s Summit PD 10 NE Tudor Rd, Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
All of the locations have cameras that can watch the transaction take place.
“Matter of fact, what we’re seeing now is, if one person says, hey, would you meet me at the police station and we can conduct our transaction there if they don’t want to come to the police station – that’s a red flag,” Lacy said.
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