A 19-year-old Buffalo man and three juveniles were charged earlier this week with mugging, pistol-whipping and robbing a Buffalo cab driver of $190 and his personal papers, including a Hungarian passport, Buffalo police said.
Rokym K. Knox, 19, of Emslie Street, and his three companions were arrested just after midnight Monday, police said.
Knox was charged with first-degree robbery and felony assault and weapons counts.
A sawed-off shotgun with a pistol grip, used in the attack on the cabbie, was recovered by police on South Division Street, according to a police report. Police did not release the charges against the three juveniles involved in the case.
Knox and the three juveniles called for a cab to pick them up at an address blocks away from the crime scene, police reported, and when the cabbie got them to Seymour and Emslie streets about 12;20 a.m., he was slammed on the back of his head by the sawed-off shotgun and robbed. The cabbie victim suffered what police described as “a large contusion to the back of the head.”
Rokym K. Knox, 19, of Emslie Street, and his three companions were arrested just after midnight Monday, police said.
Knox was charged with first-degree robbery and felony assault and weapons counts.
A sawed-off shotgun with a pistol grip, used in the attack on the cabbie, was recovered by police on South Division Street, according to a police report. Police did not release the charges against the three juveniles involved in the case.
Knox and the three juveniles called for a cab to pick them up at an address blocks away from the crime scene, police reported, and when the cabbie got them to Seymour and Emslie streets about 12;20 a.m., he was slammed on the back of his head by the sawed-off shotgun and robbed. The cabbie victim suffered what police described as “a large contusion to the back of the head.”