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Street robberies are a problem around the U.C. campus, but usually it's at 
night between 10 pm and 2 am. 

Often the victim is walking home from a bar. 

A robbery Monday was unusual. It happened at around 4:30 in the afternoon. 

Local 12's Deborah Dixon tells us, there is something else... the robbers 
are girls. 

The U.C. student was walking westbound on Lyon Street at 4:30 in the 
afternoon when three teenaged girls, 14 to 16 years old, punched her in 
the face and took her cell phone.
 
Captain Paul Nudigate, Cincinnati Police: "For it to be three young 
females is outside the norm of what we experience." 

The victim said all three girls were wearing khaki pants ... sort of like 
a school uniform? 

"Something we're looking into to see if local CPS students could be 
involved, HUGHES? That would be the closest one." 

There were five police cars outside Hughes High School when it let out 
today and thats just the beginning. There is extra money for beefed up 
police patrols that will be really noticeable when students move in next 
year. Police plan to be at the new residential retail complex U-Square at 
the Loop as they unpack, talking to parents and students about urban 
living. 

Sgt. Jason Voelkerding, Cincinnati Police: "Now, living on their own, need 
to think about things, like not leaving door unlocked with purse inside, 
leaving house, running to library, walking home from a bar at two in the 
morning." 

"Other security measures include more lights, like these on Rose Street. 
There are seven of them. It makes it hard for bad people to hide in the 
shadows at night." 

86 more lights are going up in hot spots around campus. Crime cameras are 
going in, too. Some students seem to get it. 

Clayton Theys, Student: "I would say walk in groups, don't put on 
headphones, don't be looking at a cell phone all the time, look at what's 
around you." 

Students are on cell phones, pretty much everywhere you look. Monday's 
victim was punched in the face before her 300 dollar phone was snatched. 

To street robbers, being on a cell phone simply advertises, "I have 
something worth taking". Police believe education does work. 

Emphasis on burglaries and thefts from autos reduced those crimes by 
22-percent. The Wheel of Justice is offering a thousand dollars for 
information on the three girl robbers in khakis. 

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Teen-Girls-Rob-U-C-Student/-JY5JTRHykW7Y0JI2ryutA.cspx


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