CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cleveland man was robbed at gunpoint while using drugs with a woman who bragged about her criminal history when they met earlier in the day a bus station, according to police reports.
Two armed robbers took approximately $1,100 in cash and a cellphone from the man late Saturday outside a home on East 75th Street near Chester Avenue, police reports say.
The 41-year-old man told police officers he may have been set up by the unknown woman, who told him she’d just been released from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, police reports say.
The man said he met the woman about 9:30 p.m. when she was involved in a fight at the Greyhound bus station on Chester Avenue near East 13th Street.
He pulled her aside and chatted with her. She told him she “just got out of Marysville” and started to brag about all the crimes she’d committed, police reports say. The pair then decided to go to the home on East 75th Street near Chester Avenue to use drugs.
They were in the backyard outside the home when two robbers ran up to the man and aimed handguns at him. The man tried to fight off the robbers, but they took his money and his cellphone, police reports say.
The man hurt his knee as he ran away from the robbers. He went to Cleveland Clinic for treatment.
The man spoke to police officers at the hospital and told them to check for security video of the woman at the Greyhound bus station.
No arrests have been made in the case, police said.
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