An off-duty correctional officer who was reportedly lured into meeting a 21-year-old lady for a date had to gun down two armed robbers while he and the lady were sitting in his car. The two armed robbers have been identified as Christopher Santana and Leonel Cuevas. Men should be careful out there because robbers have many strategies to lure people and rob them of their money and valuables.
The Daily Mail:
The unnamed officer and a young woman were sitting in a car at East 183 Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx at around 6pm, according to the New York Police Department. The officer thought he was meeting Diamond Sanchez, 21, for a date, police sources told the New York Daily News.
They were sitting at the intersection when two men – Christopher Santana, 22, and Leonel Cuevas, 26 – walked up to them and tried to rob them, sources said. Santana and Cuevas both ended up in the hospital after the correction officer – whose name and age have not been revealed – shot them multiple times. The pair was arrested along with the young woman, who seems to have been working against her ‘date’ from the very beginning.
It is not known if the officer is a state or city correction officer. On Saturday, one of the alleged robbers pulled out a gun and demanded the officer’s belongings, sources told NYDN. But the victim was armed. He shot Cuevas in the chest multiple times and shot Santana in the abdomen, back and hip, police told DailyMail.com.
When one of the two men dropped his gun, Sanchez – the correction officer’s ‘date’ – tried to hide it, police sources said. The alleged robbers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital. Santana is in stable condition while Cuevas remains in critical condition as of Sunday night.
Sanchez, Santana and Cuevas were all charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. Sanchez is also charged with tampering with evidence, presumably for trying to hide one of the duo’s weapons.
We always tell women to be safe when they meet people from the internet and social media, but the same goes for men. Also, if her name is Diamond, that is a red flag off the jump.
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