Police investigating whether two muggings related
Posted Nov 8, 2015 08:37:34 AM.
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HALIFAX – Regional Police are investigating whether two muggings early Saturday morning are related after two men were assaulted and had their wallets stolen in separate incidents.
Just before 2 a.m., officers received a report of a robbery near Maynard Street and Cunard Streets and upon arrival, police found a man who was assaulted by a group of six people and had his wallet stolen.
The 34-year-old was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The suspects are described as three black women and three black men in their late teen’s or early 20’s. No clothing description is available according to police.
About a half-hour later at 2:30 a.m., officers were called to Gottingen Street between Cogswell Street and Cornwallis Street where a man had been earlier been assaulted near Cogswell Street and North Park Street.
His wallet was also stolen.
The 58-year-old was assessed by paramedics on the scene but didn’t require a trip to hospital.
No description is available of the suspect in the second robbery, but police are investigating whether the two are connected and ask anyone with information to come forward.
