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Crowd Of 'Juveniles' Ransacks Center City Store, Attacks Employee: Cops Crowd Of 'Juveniles' Ransacks Center City Store, Attacks Employee: Cops
Crowd Of 'Juveniles' Ransacks Center City Store, Attacks Employee: Cops Philadelphia police are searching for answers after they say a large mob of "juvenile" suspects stormed a Center City smoke shop and assaulted an employee.  It happened just before 6 p.m. Tuesday on the 100 block of Chestnut Street, the department told Daily Voice. A crowd of "approximately 18 to 20 juveniles" burst into the Gallery of Scents and the Gold Center, went behind the counter, and began stealing items, police claimed.  When an employee tried to intervene, authorities said one of the youths punched the worker in the face.  The crowd fled with about $500 of merchandise, and no ar…

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by Mac Bullock