Daily News | Man arrested in assault and robbery of Philly 911 dispatcher
of a city police dispatcher earlier this month as she arrived for work before dawn.
Lonnie Watlington, 40, was charged with aggravated assault, robbery and related offenses for the 5:41 a.m. attack on Sept. 15 which occurred just steps from the entrance to the new Police Headquarters at Broad and Callowhill Streets, police announced over the weekend. Offices stopped Watlington shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on the 300 block of North Christopher Columbus Boulevard and identified him as the man wanted for the violent robbery, which resulted in injuries to the 25-year-old woman, police said.earlier this month, Darnell Davis, business agent for the dispatchers’ union, AFSCME Local 1637, said the woman had just gotten out of an Uber at Broad and Callowhill Streets for her 6 a.m.
A video viewed by The Inquirer shows a man in dark clothing run up to the dispatcher from behind, rip a bag from her arm and drag her on the ground for several feet. He fled the scene. Police said Saturday Watlington took the woman’s blue backpack, which contained a pair of AirPods and various debit/credit cards. The dispatcher, on the job less than a year, was treated for cuts to her arm at Einstein Medical Center, police said.
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