Senior Citizen Robbed in Wilkes-Barre Bar
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
(Wednesday, May 17)
An Exeter man is charged with robbing a woman at knifepoint in a Wilkes-Barre bar.
The robbery happened at Councilman Jim Mccarthy`s Tavern on the Hill on East Northampton Street just after 4:30 Wednesday afternoon.
Police say 24-year-old William Graham entered the bar, pointed a knife at 69-year-old Marylea Guchanas of Kingston, and took her purse.
They tell us the purse and clothing from graham were discovered a short distance away on Pershing Street.
Graham was eventually found hiding in a small crawl space off a closet in an apartment on South Welles Street in the city after police received a tip.
