WPD Investigating Recent Wheeling Island Robbery

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Wheeling Police are investigating an unarmed robbery that occurred late Tuesday evening on Wheeling Island.

Police were called around 9:20 p.m. for a report of female delivery driver who was robbed of money in the area of Indiana and North Huron Streets.

The victim told police a man approached her car, asked for directions, and then demanded money and assaulted her.

The suspect is being described as a thin, tall white male, possibly in his 30s, unshaven facial hair who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt at the time of the incident.

If anyone has information, they are urged to call police at 304-234-3664 or Crime Stoppers Upper Ohio Valley at 877-TIPS4US.

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