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Akron Police are warning people to be careful when selling or buying items off Facebook Marketplace after two separate robberies on Tuesday. Police told News 5 that the robberies happened just hours apart, and both victims were robbed at gunpoint. Akron police said the first incident took place on Wilber Avenue around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The 24-year-old victim arranged to meet people there after they agreed to buy the man’s ATV.
Miller also suggests that you choose the parking lot of a business with security cameras, but he said nowadays, most police departments have safe exchange zones, and Akron is one of them. “We allow courtesy parking outside the police department and just in that particular area of that zone, it's under surveillance,' Miller said. 'So that takes away the edge for the unknown in terms of whomever may be planning to victimize someone.
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