Surveillance images of the suspect and van used in the robbery of a business in Mayfair. Read more Philadelphia Police Department

by Robert Moran Published June 9, 2025, 7:28 p.m. ET

A man impersonating law enforcement zip-tied a 50-year-old woman and stole around $1,000 from a business in the city’s Mayfair section, police said Monday.

Around 2:10 p.m. Sunday, a man wearing a black tactical vest with the words “Security Enforcement Agent” entered the business on the 6400 block of Harbison Avenue and zip-tied the victim, police said.

The man took the money and then fled north on Harbison in a white Ford E-250 van with tinted windows, no window in the back, padlocks on the rear and passenger-side cargo doors, and red dashes along the sides of the van, police said.

The man al

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